{"id":1172,"date":"2019-03-12T11:15:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T15:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2019-03-12T11:15:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T15:15:19","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/12\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Presenting my brand-new website! Thanks to both <a href=\"http:\/\/eanbowman.com\">Ean Bowman<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/alanchow.ca\">Alan Chow<\/a> for their web wizardry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I now have a website that more easily does what I need it to do&#8211;both host this here blag but also any <a href=\"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/story\/\">free-to-read fiction<\/a> I have to share. It&#8217;s a purchased template with a focus on long-form reading but apparently quite a lot of modifications had to go into the back-end to make it do what I want; WordPress doesn&#8217;t like you hosting two types of blog in a single site. But we&#8217;re doing it anyway. Hooray! Hopefully you&#8217;ll find it easier to navigate\/read. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week&#8217;s #PitMad was very successful! (In a small, restrained way.) For the first time since I started participating, each tweet-pitch had a like from a small press!! And <em>a lot<\/em> of retweets and supportive comments. So I&#8217;m definitely getting the hang of it! Maybe? I am still not Good At The Social Medias but I&#8217;m learnding. I found this tweet super helpful:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hey, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DVPit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DVPit<\/a> hopefuls writing &amp; rewriting pitches, remember that this formula is still effective:<br><br>[Age] y\/o [Name] is [critical backstory]. When [inciting incident] does [major plot change], [pronoun] must [major decision] or else [stakes]. [comps] [hashtags]<br>BEST of luck! \ud83c\udf40<\/p>&mdash; Brittney Morris THIS BOOK MIGHT BE ABT ZINNIA 7\/25 (@BrittneyMMorris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrittneyMMorris\/status\/1051882532193497088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the small presses was exclusively horror fiction which confused the hell out of me until I realized I had marked my tweet &#8220;#H&#8221; thinking that meant &#8220;humour&#8221;. Nope! &#8220;Horror&#8221;. (Humour is #HA) So that&#8217;s on me, and another good lesson in ALWAYS DOUBLE-CHECKING SUBMISSION GUIDELINES. I caught the mistake after the first tweet so the other two were correct and I queried the other two small presses. Fingers crossed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having my website done and #PitMad out of the way really frees up time for writing.  <a href=\"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/2019\/03\/05\/not-nanowrimo\/\">My NotANaNo<\/a> is going slower than I&#8217;d like but I&#8217;m starting to build momentum again. Episode 6 of <em>Fletcher&amp;Cooper<\/em> is almost like the first part of a new\/second book, since the plot abruptly changed direction; that means a lot more laying of groundwork than I expected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But never fear, I am getting bored so shall start throwing eagle-bears into the mix. That always speeds things up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What do you think of the new design?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presenting my brand-new website design and other March updates!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,9],"tags":[72,70,178,174,63],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-personal","category-writing","tag-pitmad","tag-fletchercooper","tag-new-design","tag-notanano","tag-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}