{"id":214,"date":"2016-08-30T08:50:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T14:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahwagstaff.com\/?p=214"},"modified":"2016-08-30T08:50:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T14:50:05","slug":"caverns-found-the-sequel-and-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahwagstaff.com\/index.php\/caverns-found-the-sequel-and-editing\/","title":{"rendered":"Caverns Found, the Sequel and Editing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve finally released the sequel to Ocean Lost, Caverns Found.<\/a><\/p>\n

On Feb 24, 2011 I started this book, I finished it four years later. I spent the last six months moving to Texas, unpacking and procrastinating editing.\"dragon<\/a><\/p>\n

There’s something very emotional about writing a book and prepping it for publication. I love sharing my books with other people, but there’s a lot of fear involved too. I feel like Shalise and the writing is my dragon. I want to be on the other end of the warm reception without going through the process in the middle.<\/p>\n

Editing is a very different process from writing. It uses new skills and different parts of the brain. It’s like being on a safari hunt for the perfect word. I read a sentence and see that the words don’t work right; that something needs to be shifted to better express the feeling I wish to convey. Editing is my monster within, but once I’ve made the transformation from creator to critiquer(yes it should be a word) it’s not so terrible.<\/p>\n

I read once that most people will forgive a bad first book because you are expected to have mistakes your first time through, but that if you have a bad second book, they won’t read you again. I love Caverns Found. In some ways it surprises me. One of the difficulties in editing lay in that I kept finding myself getting caught in the story. I noticed that in my readers too. After about page fifty there were a lot less corrections or maybe I was a better writer by then.<\/p>\n

Anyhow here’s to getting Caverns Found<\/a>‘s sequel done in less than a year. Wish me luck.<\/p>\n

Bookmarks to the first five commenters. Email me your address if you want one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve finally released the sequel to Ocean Lost, Caverns Found. On Feb 24, 2011 I started this book, I finished it four years later. I spent the last six months moving to Texas, unpacking and procrastinating editing. There’s something very emotional about writing a book and prepping it for publication. I love sharing my books […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","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\/p45dqf-3s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahwagstaff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahwagstaff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahwagstaff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahwagstaff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahwagstaff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sarahwagstaff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/sarahwagstaff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahwagstaff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahwagstaff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahwagstaff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}