{"id":41622,"date":"2014-01-05T00:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T00:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/01\/05\/please-enjoy-this-beautiful-rendering-of-pilots\/"},"modified":"2017-07-02T02:19:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T02:19:09","slug":"please-enjoy-this-beautiful-rendering-of-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/01\/05\/please-enjoy-this-beautiful-rendering-of-pilots\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-41622 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/01\/05\/please-enjoy-this-beautiful-rendering-of-pilots\/attachment\/41623\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mywk1oPymP1rsbe2bo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mywk1oPymP1rsbe2bo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mywk1oPymP1rsbe2bo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>please enjoy this beautiful rendering of pilots&rsquo; wings done by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooperniehaus.com\/\">Jake<\/a>\u00a0while I tell you the good news: I&rsquo;ve found an editor!<\/p>\n<p>her name&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/fiction-doctor.com\/\">Cindy Davis<\/a>, and she&rsquo;s done a lot LOT of books in compatible genres to mine\u00a0&#8211; erotica, romance, and sci-fi in particular. I went down the list and looked up a bunch on Amazon, and they all have four- and five-star reviews. (one never knows &#8211; they could be of the family and friend variety, but there were enough ratings to satisfy me.) in short &#8211; this is a partnership that excites me. I&rsquo;ve had editors before, but never for my fiction, so&hellip;a little nervous, just a little. I hope she makes it so, so much better.<\/p>\n<p>so! I am editing the NaNo draft by putting it on my Kindle (where I already read it through), ratcheting up the text size, and retyping it so I can edit as I go. I&rsquo;m already making big character changes to the beginning, and finding lots of things that I&rsquo;d world-built and then forgot to bother with later on. I&rsquo;m sure tracking all those down will be a fun fun game&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>the goal is to have a readable draft by April, which will go out to my editor AND my lovely readers, who have seriously been clamoring for it lately (hush, dears, you&rsquo;ll get it in no more than three months!!). at that point I will simply sit back and wait with shaking hands for feedback.<\/p>\n<p>again &#8211; aren&rsquo;t those wings gorgeous? ahh. each family has their own ceremonial weapons, which are used as the central piece of a pilot&rsquo;s wings. the wings themselves are also custom and chosen\/designed\/sometimes made by the pilots themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>please enjoy this beautiful rendering of pilots&rsquo; wings done by Jake\u00a0while I tell you the good news: I&rsquo;ve found an editor! her name&rsquo;s Cindy Davis, and she&rsquo;s done a lot LOT of books in compatible genres to mine\u00a0&#8211; erotica, romance, and sci-fi in particular. I went down the list and looked up a bunch on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/01\/05\/please-enjoy-this-beautiful-rendering-of-pilots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11573,567,397,11576,11574,778,11575,429],"class_list":["post-41622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-culture","tag-design","tag-fashion","tag-pilot","tag-society","tag-sword","tag-traditions","tag-wings","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41624,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41622\/revisions\/41624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}