{"id":10910,"date":"2007-11-18T22:58:24","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T03:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/18\/zen-and-the-art-of-handing-a-draft-to-someone-who-can-be-neutral\/"},"modified":"2007-11-20T23:47:09","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T04:47:09","slug":"zen-and-the-art-of-handing-a-draft-to-someone-who-can-be-neutral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/18\/zen-and-the-art-of-handing-a-draft-to-someone-who-can-be-neutral\/","title":{"rendered":"Zen and the art of handing a draft to someone who can be neutral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late Saturday night I finished implementing all the edits from the beginning to end read-through, before sending the manuscript back to Kerry for a second pass. At this point <em>The Last Track<\/em> is in her able hands. Though I&#8217;m not sure exactly when she might finish, a matter my instructions no doubt greatly frustrated, unless Divine Intervention smites me, the agent will have the manuscript for further consideration before I leave for Moscow in late December.<\/p>\n<p>The nicest thing about finishing up is that I can work on something else. And oh man, do I need to disappear in a new project. God damn. It&#8217;s been nearly four years since I started the novel once known as <em>Velocity<\/em>, the sequel to an unfinished manuscript I walked away from to protect my sanity. Yeah, I don&#8217;t feel old reading the previous sentence, I swear.<\/p>\n<p>And now a beer before bed&#8230;or I&#8217;ll have dreams of Kerry&#8217;s pen dicing the pages like this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site-images\/pen.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late Saturday night I finished implementing all the edits from the beginning to end read-through, before sending the manuscript back to Kerry for a second pass. At this point The Last Track is in her able hands. Though I&#8217;m not sure exactly when she might finish, a matter my instructions no doubt greatly frustrated, unless [&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-10910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10910","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=10910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}