{"id":1506,"date":"2017-11-20T18:39:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T23:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2017-11-20T18:39:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T23:39:03","slug":"finishing-battlefield-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/finishing-battlefield-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Finishing Battlefield High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Battlefield-High-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1472\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Battlefield-High-cover-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Battlefield-High-cover-204x300.jpg 204w, http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Battlefield-High-cover.jpg 407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve finished my last edit of Battlefield High &#8211; formerly known as The Red Election &#8211; which will soon be circulated amongst publishers for a fierce bidding war, I&#8217;m sure. I basically added a bunch of smaller &#8220;character moments&#8221; to slow down the relentless pace a bit and flesh out some secondary characters. My future editor will probably want me to cut it all out, cuz that&#8217;s the way the biz works.<\/p>\n<p>You think you&#8217;ve written a masterpiece, and a professional killjoy (I mean that in the most loving way) sends you a multi-page critique going into extreme detail on how it&#8217;s all crap. Then, after I&#8217;m done wallowing in self-pity and my serotonin levels rebound, I&#8217;ll get to editing it again, and then again, and then probably\u00a0<em>again<\/em>, until it&#8217;s as good as it&#8217;s ever going to get, for better or worse.<\/p>\n<p>Wanna see some sneak peeks into Battlefield High? Then subscribe to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/newsletter\/\">newsletter<\/a>! I regularly post samples of it in that venue, along with exciting reader news and gorgeous cat montages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finished my last edit of Battlefield High &#8211; formerly known as The Red Election &#8211; which will soon be circulated amongst publishers for a fierce bidding war, I&#8217;m sure. I basically added a bunch of smaller &#8220;character moments&#8221; to slow down the relentless pace a bit and flesh out some secondary characters. My future &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/finishing-battlefield-high\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finishing Battlefield High&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[314,321,160],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-battlefield-high","tag-cat-montages","tag-the-red-election"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Vyi8-oi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}