{"id":3659,"date":"2014-06-04T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3659"},"modified":"2014-06-02T07:37:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T11:37:29","slug":"the-writing-life-sending-in-the-manuscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3659","title":{"rendered":"The Writing Life: Sending in the Manuscript"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/article-2232259-16016BD5000005DC-434_964x740.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3091 lazyload\" alt=\"article-2232259-16016BD5000005DC-434_964x740\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/article-2232259-16016BD5000005DC-434_964x740.jpg\" width=\"578\" height=\"444\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 578px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 578\/444;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3091\" alt=\"article-2232259-16016BD5000005DC-434_964x740\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/article-2232259-16016BD5000005DC-434_964x740.jpg\" width=\"578\" height=\"444\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1401707773935_7201\">I have been working diligently on the first and second drafts of my new Regency romance and I am happy to say that the third draft is now in the hands of my lovely editor. Now comes the time every author both loves and dreads: the moment of completion coupled with the long wait.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1401707773935_7200\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1401707773935_6992\">No matter how long I write, I always wonder: do I still have the touch? Can I still tell a good story that readers want to hear, and develop characters that they hopefully will love? I love my book in the third draft stage, but I always wonder if anyon else will. Neurosis will always be a part of my writerly make-up. But I accept that about myself. Self-doubt comes with the territory. I think a healthy does of self-doubt makes me more vigilant toward quality, trying always to make each book, each draft, better than the last. That&#8217;s the goal: to always tell a better story than I did before. And striving toward that goal is reward in itself.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been working diligently on the first and second drafts of my new Regency romance and I am happy to say that the third draft is now in the hands of my lovely editor. Now comes the time every author both loves and dreads: the moment of completion coupled with the long wait. No &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3659\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Writing Life: Sending in the Manuscript<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3660,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659\/revisions\/3660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}