{"id":9356,"date":"2014-08-15T19:39:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T09:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=9356"},"modified":"2014-08-15T19:39:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T09:39:04","slug":"when-to-send-your-novel-writing-into-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/when-to-send-your-novel-writing-into-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"When To Send Your Novel Writing Into The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m over at the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild talking about when to send your novel writing out into the world:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/DSC_0552.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8609\" src=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/DSC_0552-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0552\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/DSC_0552-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/DSC_0552.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>Why is it that we only realise how bad we were at writing novels\u2026 once we\u2019re finally good at writing them? When I finished writing my first novel, I honestly thought it would be a simple matter of promoting it to the right agent or publisher, then that would be that. I lived in London at that time. Surely one of them would take it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Not so, younger more-amateur Zena!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">When I started writing my second novel, I knew it wouldn\u2019t be that simple \u2013 I figured I\u2019d have to at least pay for a manuscript assessment this time, you know, to really polish it off. So long as the manuscript assessment didn\u2019t identify any major plot flaws, I figured I\u2019d use the feedback to make my novel shine, then it would be ready to send out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Not so, younger more-amateur Zena&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To find out when the time is right, read more of that awesome post over <a title=\"CSFG\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csfg.org.au\/2014\/08\/15\/when-to-send-your-novel-writing-into-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m over at the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild talking about when to send your novel writing out into the world: Why is it that we only realise how bad we were at writing novels\u2026 once we\u2019re finally good at writing them? When I finished writing my first novel, I\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/when-to-send-your-novel-writing-into-the-world\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[27,932,100,143,218,931,457,496,712],"class_list":["post-9356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writer-advice","tag-agents","tag-assessments","tag-canberra-speculative-fiction-guild","tag-csfg","tag-fiction","tag-manuscripts","tag-novel","tag-publishers","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9356"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9361,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions\/9361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}