{"id":1062,"date":"2010-03-18T13:57:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T20:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2010-03-18T13:57:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T20:57:27","slug":"woo-hoo-party-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/woo-hoo-party-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Woo hoo. Party time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 5px; border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.buddha-images.com\/PathomChedi\/pathomchedi22_hand.jpg?resize=150%2C200\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" align=\"left\" \/>I just sent RARER THAN RUBIES off the editor. I&#8217;m so happy to be finished with this project, and I&#8217;m\u00a0definitely\u00a0pleased with the result. It&#8217;s about 66K, which is significantly longer than I&#8217;d \u00a0planned, but any shorter and it would have felt rushed in the resolution of the storylines. I went through a phase where I hated this book, and the characters, but now I don&#8217;t want to say goodbye to them!<\/p>\n<p>If I didn&#8217;t have several other projects past deadline, I&#8217;d already be plotting a sequel!<\/p>\n<p>I had a lot of setbacks and problems in RL while working on this, so this finish is a real accomplishment. Usually, I&#8217;m not this overjoyed about\u00a0completing\u00a0a particular piece. It&#8217;s also the longest work I&#8217;ve done for a while, so excuse me for getting excited.<\/p>\n<p>I want to especially thank the beta readers who read, commented, answered questions and then more questions while I fine-tuned some aspects of the piece. Except for one person who didn&#8217;t care for it, I got overwhelmingly positive reactions and a lot of great feedback and suggestions. I could never have finished without you.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d been thinking about how to celebrate, and I think chocolate is going to figure in somehow. How do you like to celebrate a big accomplishment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just sent RARER THAN RUBIES off the editor. I&#8217;m so happy to be finished with this project, and I&#8217;m\u00a0definitely\u00a0pleased with the result. It&#8217;s about 66K, which is significantly longer than I&#8217;d \u00a0planned, but any shorter and it would have felt rushed in the resolution of the storylines. I went through a phase where I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"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":[1],"tags":[915],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-rarer-than-rubies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pzLgx-h8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}