{"id":4788,"date":"2016-08-12T11:44:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T15:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/?p=4788"},"modified":"2016-08-12T11:44:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T15:44:26","slug":"q-do-you-have-deadlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/writing\/q-do-you-have-deadlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Q. Do You Have Deadlines?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_7090\"<\/a>A. Yes. I have one today, actually, and I\u2019m missing it.<\/p>\n

My editor Kate Jacobs and I keep in touch regularly about my progress with my drafts, and we mutually agree about when I have one due, based on what stage the book is in and how much revising needs to happen.<\/p>\n

For instance, I\u2019m currently working on the 5th draft of Vault 3, and when I began it back in July, I thought I could turn it in by today. I started realizing last weekend, however, that I was progressing more slowly as I hit sections of the book with deeper problems. I thought putting more hours in would catch me up, but I kept falling further behind.<\/p>\n

So I emailed my editor Wednesday to ask about an extension, and Kate let me know yesterday that I can take an extra week. We\u2019re still unsure if this draft will come in solid enough to warrant a close edit, or if it will need more discussion and another shuffle before that editing stage, which is even more time intensive for her.<\/p>\n

In other words, I have deadlines, and I almost always make them, but sometimes I ask for more time. The deadlines match the work, realistically. When we\u2019re closer to the end of the revision process and up against production deadlines, those are more rigid, and I can\u2019t miss them. To be honest, it helps enormously to have a flexible, careful editor who works as hard as mine does. We’re definitely a team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A. Yes. I have one today, actually, and I\u2019m missing it. My editor Kate Jacobs and I keep in touch regularly about my progress with my drafts, and we mutually agree about when I have one due, based on what stage the book is in and how much revising needs to happen. For instance, I\u2019m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[326,852,37],"class_list":["post-4788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-revising","tag-vault-3","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4792,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions\/4792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}