{"id":3321,"date":"2008-08-07T21:34:30","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T03:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromutopia.com\/?p=3321"},"modified":"2008-08-07T21:34:30","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T03:34:30","slug":"printing-printing-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/printing-printing-printing\/","title":{"rendered":"Printing, printing, printing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/98.129.169.147\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/my-knights1.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><br \/>\n<em>A photo of my guys, because who wants to see a photo of a printer?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the glory of finishing a draft of a novel is closely followed by the drudgery of printing. And printing. And printing. Yes, I know I could send it to a copy shop. I did that with the first novel. But that was New York, with the New York boundaries in place. It feels weird to do that here in Portland, where the personal boundaries are more relaxed. I&#8217;m pretty sure someone here in Portland would not only read through it while they copy it; they would also tell me about it. Which I couldn&#8217;t handle. They&#8217;d be totally sweet and friendly about it, but still. In New York, if they bothered to look at my pages, they never said so.<\/p>\n<p>I printed out two copies already. One is in the mail to Reyna (who&#8217;s been my reader and I hers off and on since we were in high school), and the other was handed off to <a href=\"http:\/\/heatherly.typepad.com\/my_weblog\/\">Heather<\/a>, who&#8217;s reading it to make sure the legal stuff is plausible. <a href=\"http:\/\/eend.nl\/dfc\/\">Marrije<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/aninainlemurland.wordpress.com\/\">Anina<\/a> both wanted the file emailed rather than hard copy sent (bless), so the book is also with them. Tonight, I&#8217;m printing out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomati.com\/\">Lon&#8217;s<\/a> copy to mail to him, and once I mail that tomorrow, it will officially be in the hands or on the way to the hands of all my second-draft readers. That is, the very first people to see even a single word of the book. Gulp.<\/p>\n<p>Which marks the start of the tortuous waiting-for-feedback period. No wonder I&#8217;ve picked up my knitting again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A photo of my guys, because who wants to see a photo of a printer? Unfortunately, the glory of finishing a draft of a novel is closely followed by the drudgery of printing. And printing. And printing. Yes, I know &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/printing-printing-printing\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Printing, printing, printing<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cariluna.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}