{"id":53,"date":"2016-03-30T16:04:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T20:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2019-02-10T12:49:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T17:49:14","slug":"editing-is-boring-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/30\/editing-is-boring-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Editing is Boring: Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/18\/editing-is-boring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Last post<\/a>, I moaned about how boring editing is. But I ended the moaning with some brainstorming over how to hack the process;\u00a0perhaps working at the library or some such. Turns out there was an easier solution: threats.<\/p>\n<p>Cutie\u00a0made a suggestion the next day about creating what we called a dead-man-switch. I&#8217;d give them\u00a0the list of people who asked to beta-read <em>Creampuffs<\/em>, and then, come April 1st, they were\u00a0mailing out\u00a0the manuscript.<\/p>\n<p>Whether I finished editing or not.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing like terror, ego, and pride in a blender to sit your ass in a chair.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Combined with the dead-man-switch (there&#8217;s probably a better name for it but that&#8217;s the one we went with) I decided to use <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/productivity-101-a-primer-to-the-pomodoro-technique-1598992730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the pomodoro method<\/a>, which I find very effective. At least 4 tomatoes a day, 5 days a week. Some days,\u00a0I managed less. Some days, especially around Easter, I did 0. But you know what? Overall? It worked.<\/p>\n<p>I finished a day ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n<p>I still have two scenes that need complete rewrites. Planning to do so\u00a0tomorrow. Then Friday, I&#8217;ll send out the email myself. Next up on the agenda is finishing <em>Embers<\/em>, and locking myself in a room to write is <em>not\u00a0<\/em>something I have a problem doing. But at least now I know what works for next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hacking the editing process and adding some terror to speed motivation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[89,78,90],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-blag","tag-creampuffs","tag-editing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","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=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}