Four consecutive days away from work did wonders for my interest and focus level in writing. The 2006-2007 school year is now a memory. During the regrouping period, I watched a bunch of DVD’s, read a few books and tackled those edits. Roughly one hundred and forty pages remain to be implemented.<\/p>\n
It’s been a long road and the end of this journey is near. The Last Track<\/em> took almost three years to move from a very rough draft to something I can pitch to any agent or interested party with confidence. There is really nothing more I can do with this manuscript that would improve it more than changing the toner cartridge in the printer; I left nothing on the table. Back then, if someone told me what a pain in the ass writing a novel is, really the effort it takes to get it right, to make it the best I’m capable of, I would have pushed them down the stairs for heresy. And I wouldn’t have listened, either. Writing is mystical, magical, worth any sacrifice. Right?<\/p>\n More often than not the process has been fun, and it is its own reward. Ultimately, I did it because I have to, and no matter what happens now, to me the ride was worth the fuel cost for the trip. Even at full retail. Sometimes I wonder if it was worth a divorce, but that’s another discussion.<\/p>\n Though all the above rational are valid, I’ll state this with absolute conviction: I’m aching to start another project. Whether it’s resuming The Confession,<\/em> or a new screenplay idea, I’m ready for new ground. Oh, the places I will go. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Four consecutive days away from work did wonders for my interest and focus level in writing. The 2006-2007 school year is now a memory. During the regrouping period, I watched a bunch of DVD’s, read a few books and tackled those edits. Roughly one hundred and forty pages remain to be implemented. It’s been a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}