{"id":2046,"date":"2010-05-26T03:33:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T07:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=2046"},"modified":"2010-05-26T03:33:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T07:33:01","slug":"falling-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/falling-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling behind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Man, CONduit is at the end of this week, and I’ve still got a good 14k words to go in Mercenary Savior.<\/em> Today, I only wrote 1,300 words. \u00a0I have no idea why my productivity has fallen so much, but it’s not good.<\/p>\n

It might not be a totally bad thing, though. \u00a0I’m having trouble finding a ride up for Friday, so I might end up spending two or three hours on the bus. \u00a0If that’s the case, I might have some writing time then.<\/p>\n

I read something interesting on Dave Farland’s daily kick (the email newsletter he sends out–it’s free, btw, and very helpful). \u00a0Basically, he said that it’s better to wait to submit something until it’s absolutely perfect than to submit something for the sake of submitting it.<\/p>\n

This is making me rethink my plan to start submitting\u00a0Mercenary Savior<\/em> right after I finish this draft. \u00a0It’s much improved, I think, from the first couple of drafts, but it still needs a lot of work.<\/p>\n

As I run down my list of revision notes, I keep thinking “dang, I didn’t pull that off as well as I’d hoped” or “that last scene could have been better.” It’s hard, though, to juggle so many changes; you can only do so much work at once. \u00a0Mercenary Savior<\/em> is going to need another revision after this one before it’s polished.<\/p>\n

The only thing is…that means I only have one novel to submit to agents\/editors. \u00a0Is that a bad thing? \u00a0Now that I’m in the real world, I’m anxious to launch my writing career, but at the same time I don’t want to shoot myself in the foot.<\/p>\n

I suppose the first thing to do is to finish this beast. \u00a0Ugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Man, CONduit is at the end of this week, and I’ve still got a good 14k words to go in Mercenary Savior. Today, I only wrote 1,300 words. \u00a0I have no idea why my productivity has fallen so much, but it’s not good. It might not be a totally bad thing, though. \u00a0I’m having trouble… Continue reading Falling behind<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68,32],"tags":[89,382,401,223,46,186],"class_list":["post-2046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bsh","category-ge","tag-career-decisions","tag-conduit-2010","tag-david-wolverton","tag-finishing","tag-goals-and-plans","tag-submitting","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-x0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2049,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions\/2049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}