{"id":1426,"date":"2011-07-22T11:23:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T18:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emlynley.livejournal.com\/99435.html"},"modified":"2011-07-22T11:23:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T18:23:07","slug":"digging-my-way-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/digging-my-way-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Digging my way out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" vspace=\"8\" hspace=\"8\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/emlynley\/pic\/0003htya\/s320x240\" \/>I&apos;m slowly trying to dig my way out of a black hole of no social interaction. I&apos;ve hardly posted at all for the past month and I can&apos;t understand where all the time went!<\/p>\n<p>I had a great time during SF Pride Week, with&nbsp;<span class=&apos;ljuser ljuser-name_engel82&apos; lj:user=&apos;engel82&apos; style=&apos;white-space:nowrap&apos;><a href=&apos;http:\/\/engel82.livejournal.com\/profile&apos;><img src=&apos;http:\/\/l-files.livejournal.net\/userhead\/444?v=1318850056&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos;\/><\/a><a href=&apos;http:\/\/engel82.livejournal.com\/&apos;><b>engel82<\/b><\/a><\/span>&nbsp;visiting from Vancouver. Then after she went home, it seemed to be a non-stop two weeks of editing and re-editing. I&apos;ve got two releases scheduled for the last weekend of July, and I had no idea how much time all the pre-release activity would take up. With two big writing deadlines for September (and two big releases in December as a result) I&apos;m sort of panicking now.<\/p>\n<p>So one thing I&apos;ve learned from all of this: two releases at the same time means all the editing and proofing pretty much happens at once. And proofing 85k takes a lot longer than just reading 85k of someone else&apos;s work. Multiply that times two.<\/p>\n<p>Then, try to fit writing two novels into the mix, and it&apos;s easy to see why blogging has taken a backseat to everything else. I&apos;m still staring at thousands of unanswered emails.<\/p>\n<p>And then, I&apos;ve got to do promo on the new releases. Twice the effort while still trying to avoid making the universe sick of my name. I&apos;m seriously considering hiring someone to do my promo. Got a suggestion of anyone you think does a great job?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&apos;m slowly trying to dig my way out of a black hole of no social interaction. I&apos;ve hardly posted at all for the past month and I can&apos;t understand where all the time went! I had a great time during SF Pride Week, with&nbsp;engel82&nbsp;visiting from Vancouver. Then after she went home, it seemed to be [&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":[],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pzLgx-n0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","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=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}