{"id":837,"date":"2011-12-28T15:00:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T21:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/?p=837"},"modified":"2011-12-25T16:58:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T22:58:21","slug":"writing-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/28\/writing-year-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Year in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the usual fashion, I&#8217;m starting off my planning for 2012 by looking back at 2011. It was a good year, writing-wise. <\/p>\n<p>The most notable point is that I made my first two fiction sales: &#8220;The Demon&#8217;s Tomb&#8221; came out in volume 2 of <a href=\"http:\/\/thecrimsonpact.com\/\">The Crimson Pact<\/a> in August, and &#8220;A Talent for Death&#8221; is in the current issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/sdpbookstore.com\/shelterofdaylight.htm \">Shelter of Daylight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I finished several short stories this year. My goal was four, plus any interesting anthologies that turned up, so I ended up writing seven. Which surprises me, now that I add them all up, because it seems like a lot. In fact, it&#8217;s half of the short stories I&#8217;ve written ever. Which makes it completely unsurprising that I blew my previous annual number of submissions out of the water. <\/p>\n<p>Novel-wise, I finished the first draft of one book, and I&#8217;m just about done with a revision  of another book.  I&#8217;m also finishing up the planning stages of my next book and itching to start writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the usual fashion, I&#8217;m starting off my planning for 2012 by looking back at 2011. It was a good year, writing-wise. The most notable point is that I made my first two fiction sales: &#8220;The Demon&#8217;s Tomb&#8221; came out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/28\/writing-year-in-review\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}