{"id":8668,"date":"2015-09-21T00:05:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T05:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/?p=8668"},"modified":"2015-09-12T18:19:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T23:19:18","slug":"see-jane-make-a-pest-of-herself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/see-jane-make-a-pest-of-herself\/","title":{"rendered":"See Jane Make a Pest of Herself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/shapeimage_1-3100-300x171.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8669\" src=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/shapeimage_1-3100-300x171.png\" alt=\"My agent is reading the mystery novel and I'm resisting the urge to make a pest of myself and cultivating patience and self-restraint instead.\" width=\"500\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a>In what may be a first at Down the Gravel Road, this mystery novel update comes <a href=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/2015\/08\/write-jane-write\/\" target=\"_blank\">less than a month after the previous one<\/a>. Hard to believe, isn&#8217;t it? How can a writer, especially one who&#8217;s been hacking away at this manuscript for 2 1\/2 years, make enough progress in one short month to warrant another update?<\/p>\n<p>All I can say is that motivation makes a difference.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the motivation was a visit from my daughter over Labor Day. The same daughter who gave the marvelous feedback mentioned in <a href=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/2015\/08\/write-jane-write\/\" target=\"_blank\">the previous update<\/a>. The daughter who I hoped would have time to reread the manuscript with the revisions she suggested. While I watched her baby.<\/p>\n<p>Getting my hands on him was extra motivation.<\/p>\n<p>Motivation worked. The rewrite was ready for her, she got it read, offered a little more feedback and then said, &#8220;You got it. It&#8217;s done. You should send it to your agent. And let Dad read it, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I sent it my agent last week.<\/p>\n<p>And am waiting on pins and needles to hear what she has to say. Since she&#8217;s mother to\u00a0\u00a0 3 young daughters, I&#8217;m doing my best to cultivate self-restraint and resist the hourly urge to email her and ask, &#8220;Are you done yet? Whaddya think? Did you like it? Huh? Huh? Huh?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Man of Steel loaded a copy onto his iPad, too.<\/p>\n<p>He finished it in a week. Not an easy feat for someone who doesn&#8217;t like to read very much. Because he tends to fall asleep when he reads. But this book kept him awake. He really liked it and gave some good feedback.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate, I printed out a hard copy and am proofreading all 315 pages.<\/p>\n<p>And making minor changes based on the Man of Steel&#8217;s suggestions. Partly out of desire to make my manuscript the best it can be. Partly because burying myself in the novel keeps me from emailing my agent and asking,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you done yet? Whatddya think? Do you like it? Huh? Huh? Huh?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what may be a first at Down the Gravel Road, this mystery novel update comes less than a month after the previous one. Hard to believe, isn&#8217;t it? 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