{"id":184,"date":"2013-10-23T13:23:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T17:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=184"},"modified":"2013-10-23T13:23:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T17:23:22","slug":"editing-of-awakened-book-2-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/23\/editing-of-awakened-book-2-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Editing of Awakened Book 2 done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welp, after letting it sit for awhile, I went back through Archon&#8217;s Queen on its second edit pass. By way of comparison, Virtual Immortality is on its eighth, as was Division Zero. Prophet made it to 6 &#8211; but this one I am happy with after two.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps there is something to be said for noticed progress \ud83d\ude42 It came to my attention at some point after I finished all four of them that passive voice was a bad thing, and like most bad things (and most new authors scrambling to impress their editors) I went on a crusade to stamp it out&#8230; At least, stamp it out where it was inappropriate to use.<\/p>\n<p>Much to my happiness, I found less of it in Queen than the others.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I am now free to start drafting on the sequel to Division Zero \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I figure I&#8217;m already two books into The Awakened series, might as well get Kirsten caught up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welp, after letting it sit for awhile, I went back through Archon&#8217;s Queen on its second edit pass. By way of comparison, Virtual Immortality is on its eighth, as was Division Zero. Prophet made it to 6 &#8211; but this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/23\/editing-of-awakened-book-2-done\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-the-awakened"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}