{"id":2449,"date":"2007-06-26T06:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T06:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:26:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:26:52","slug":"big-comedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2449","title":{"rendered":"The Big Comedown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I feel a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction after the successful conclusion of the Summer Blog Blast Tour, there&#8217;s also a sense of relief to get back to the routine&#8211;such as it is, in my house. For me that means essays to grade for my husband&#8217;s online art appreciation classes; a poster design to finalize for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospecttheaterproject.org\/\">local theater<\/a> I do some graphic design work for; catching up on the housework I&#8217;ve sadly neglected; and, of course, getting back to revising my novel. I have FIVE CHAPTERS AND AN EPILOGUE left. It seems so close and yet so far, because then I need to give it another read-through, and tighten up my synopsis, before I let the proposal leave the house.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sad, because I so badly wanted to have all of it done by&#8211;oh, the 16th of June, to be exact. TadMack and I had set this arbitrary deadline on the 16th of May, when I was about a fourth of the way into the revision and going strong. Then a whole bunch of other stuff happened, as is the way of things. But I still see this getting done before I leave for various conferences and such on July 21st. To quote the Little Engine That Could (a book I MUST get for my 2-year-old nephew, who is vehicle-obsessed), I think I can, I think I can&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I feel a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction after the successful conclusion of the Summer Blog Blast Tour, there&#8217;s also a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,10],"class_list":["post-2449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4152,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions\/4152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}