{"id":1183,"date":"2007-02-14T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/going-fishing.html"},"modified":"2007-02-14T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T02:30:00","slug":"going-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/going-fishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/RdJ4NwXd5SI\/AAAAAAAAAGY\/72Ri9qqA1P8\/s1600-h\/fish.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/RdJ4NwXd5SI\/AAAAAAAAAGY\/72Ri9qqA1P8\/s320\/fish.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5031215911443227938\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Going fishing. That&#8217;s the term I use for submitting my rejected manuscripts to other houses. It&#8217;s been awhile since my last book was published, but life kind of got in the way. I got married and then I had a baby. My baby is now eighteen months old and can amuse himself to some extent while I try and get some writing done. Also, since I work full-time, it&#8217;s hard to devote much time to writing when I have familial duties to take care of.<\/p>\n<p>When I started sending my rejects out to various houses, my husband said, &#8220;Maybe one of them will bite.&#8221; That&#8217;s when I came up with the brilliant idea of calling this re-submission process &#8216;going fishing.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I encourage all of you who have been rejected to go fishing. My next book, tentatively scheduled for a March 2008 release date, was sold to a publisher because of my fishing expedition. I still have others floating around out there, searching for a home while I work on my current project.<\/p>\n<p>Cecelia Dowdy<br \/>www.ceceliadowdy.com<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going fishing. That&#8217;s the term I use for submitting my rejected manuscripts to other houses. It&#8217;s been awhile since my last book was published, but life kind of got in the way. I got married and then I had a baby. My baby is now eighteen months old and can amuse himself to some extent [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-related-posts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-j5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}