{"id":282,"date":"2013-04-12T15:39:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T15:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=282"},"modified":"2013-04-13T16:20:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T16:20:48","slug":"friend-of-a-friend-knows-somebody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"Friend of a friend knows Somebody"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chalice<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> may be sitting on the desk of a big-deal publisher\u2019s Somebody. I\u2019d sent a copy to a \u201cfriend of a friend who knows Somebody,\u201d because friend’s friend did preliminary reading for Somebody and said she would look at it. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Like the other 10 hard copies I sent off for feedback (with about 10 in electronic form), the spiral binding was for reader convenience and it was printed two pages on each side of each sheet to save paper.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday my friend got a call from his friend that she had sent it on to Somebody who said the submission was not even formatted to standards available online, but Somebody would read the first \u00bc and give it to one of her readers who would read the whole thing.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Chagrin mixed with appreciation mixed with a modicum of \u201c\u2026but if I had known\u2026\u201d tempered by \u201c\u2026 should I have assumed\u2026?\u201d I guess work pushed even in the direction of traditional publishing channels should have been formatted to traditional standards.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As we were walking his dogs through the manzanita near the river talking mostly about his divorce, my friend asked how I will feel if Somebody says\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Chalice <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>is crap. My answer was sloppy, involving art and ego and opinions and the market place. All true, but only pointing at the nexus.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Which is that <\/span><\/span><\/span>Chalice<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> is not crap and knowing this gives me serenity. It is vastly improved from where it started and there is room for improvement still. I am doing my best and soon it will be done. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Chalice<\/i>\u00a0may not be for everybody, but it is not crap. And the opinion of one Somebody doesn\u2019t change that, though of course I hope she likes it.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chalice<\/i> may be sitting on the desk of a big-deal publisher\u2019s Somebody. I\u2019d sent a copy to a \u201cfriend of a friend who knows Somebody,\u201d because friend’s friend did preliminary reading for Somebody and said she would look at it. <\/p>\n

Like the other 10 hard copies I sent off for feedback (with about 10 in electronic form), the spiral binding was for reader convenience and it was printed two pages on each side of each sheet to save paper.<\/p>\n

Yesterday my friend got a call from his friend that she had sent it on to Somebody \u2026 Read more\u2026 → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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":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":[15,7],"tags":[35,44,43,36,10],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chalice","category-out-my-window","tag-author","tag-manuscript","tag-publisher","tag-writer","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mcOb-4y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}