{"id":10872,"date":"2007-07-31T19:00:46","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T00:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/31\/it-is-done\/"},"modified":"2007-07-31T19:01:23","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T00:01:23","slug":"it-is-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/31\/it-is-done\/","title":{"rendered":"It is done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a quick skim of <em>The Last Track<\/em> yesterday and today, I emailed the manuscript to the agent. Very strange feeling watching 3 years of my life shoot down the pipes towards a unknown mail server in NYC.<\/p>\n<p>While it might have been an odd sensation letting go, knowing that the pages were in the pocket and required no last minute intervention was a huge relief. Usually when requests for material arrive, I have to talk myself out of tinkering. There is the tendency to doubt the project. And even where I overcome the urge, I still feel like there are more fine tunings that can be done.<\/p>\n<p>Not this time. Oh no, not for this agent. Part of this ease draws from the thorough deliberateness of which Oriana scoured the manuscript; she really neutralized the minute oversights that though relatively innocuous in trace amounts, when they persist and gather over the span of a narrative, greatly undermine the writing.<\/p>\n<p>Though I had a few expletive laden mental conversations with her to get to that point when implementing the fixes, it was worth the piece of mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a quick skim of The Last Track yesterday and today, I emailed the manuscript to the agent. Very strange feeling watching 3 years of my life shoot down the pipes towards a unknown mail server in NYC. While it might have been an odd sensation letting go, knowing that the pages were in the [&hellip;]<\/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-10872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10872","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=10872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}