{"id":1228,"date":"2016-09-13T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paddyeger.com\/blog\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2016-08-08T19:59:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T19:59:05","slug":"what-do-authors-do-after-they-finish-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/blog\/2016\/09\/13\/what-do-authors-do-after-they-finish-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do Author&#8217;s Do After They Finish a Book?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I wait for my recently completed books to arrive, I often take a writing break and work on tasks I&#8217;ve let go while I was focused on my deadline. Things like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I wander around, wondering what to do with myself without pages to edit.<\/li>\n<li>I clean closets and drawers and sort through the papers and books that I may or may not need now that the book is completed.<\/li>\n<li>I enjoy lunch with my friends, make overdue phone calls, and scout out belated-and-need-to-be-mailed birthday gifts.<\/li>\n<li>I wonder what&#8217;s missing from my days. (It&#8217;s writing!)<\/li>\n<li>I start a new writing project. (It&#8217;s hard to not have <em>something<\/em> to write!)<\/li>\n<li>I go on a min-vacation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find me doing all of these things over the next weeks as I get back to work on gathering reviews, planning events and hoping to hear from readers that <em>Letter to Follow<\/em> was worth their wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I wait for my recently completed books to arrive, I often take a writing break and work on tasks I&#8217;ve let go while I was focused on my deadline. Things like: I wander around, wondering what to do with myself without pages to edit. I clean closets and drawers and sort through the papers and books that I may or may not need now that the book is completed. I enjoy lunch with my friends, make overdue phone calls, and scout out belated-and-need-to-be-mailed birthday gifts. I wonder what&#8217;s missing from my days. (It&#8217;s writing!) I start a new writing&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-84-ribbons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}