{"id":2664,"date":"2008-01-11T05:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:27:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:27:17","slug":"my-eyes-are-blurry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2008\/01\/11\/my-eyes-are-blurry\/","title":{"rendered":"My Eyes are Blurry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing layout and editing on Lighter Than Air, one of the novels that I&#8217;ll be putting out this year. \u00a0I&#8217;ve probably read the story a dozen times when I first wrote and polished it, but now that I&#8217;m doing the final layout, I&#8217;ve read through it four times in the past two days. \u00a0And I think it gets better each time.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That&#8217;s one thing I find about my writing. \u00a0I&#8217;m in love with the story when I write it, but when it ages while off at a publishing house or an agent, I tend to lose confidence. \u00a0This was certainly a pleasant surprise when I opened up the file and began working on it again. \u00a0I wrote a great story and it holds together very well, even under multiple re-readings.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A publisher has to be in love with the books he produces, and, you know, I&#8217;m not having any difficulty with that at all.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing layout and editing on Lighter Than Air, one of the novels that I&#8217;ll be putting out this year. \u00a0I&#8217;ve probably read the story a dozen times when I first wrote and polished it, but now that I&#8217;m doing the final layout, I&#8217;ve read through it four times in the past two days.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2008\/01\/11\/my-eyes-are-blurry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Eyes are Blurry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-GY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2665,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions\/2665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}