{"id":5,"date":"2014-03-01T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2014-10-05T20:25:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T20:25:33","slug":"beta-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"Beta Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;\" href=\"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Beta-Notes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Beta-Notes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">This is my Saturday.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">Hanging out with notes from my beta readers.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">I love getting thoughts and comments from readers. Back when I wrote my first book and got my first beta reader for it I was scared to death to get her emails. So sure she was going to hate what she read and tell me I was a moron for writing it. (That didn&#8217;t happen)<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">Over the past few years I&#8217;ve LOVED to get thoughts from readers. I have a few readers who let me know EXACTLY what they&#8217;re feeling when they read different parts of the book and I feel like I&#8217;m in their head, reading it from a whole new perspective. I have a few readers who email their thoughts, a few that call and a few that write things down next to the text. My friend Abby draws me little hearts when she likes something she reads (my favorite!)<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m a dreamer when I write. Things don&#8217;t always make sense, and they&#8217;re not always possible. My readers are really good at grounding me and bringing me back down to earth. In fact I got a call at work from my husband this past week where he started the conversation with &#8220;Are you crazy? Do you think submarines are made out of fruit roll-ups?&#8221; ha ha ha &#8211; well, they&#8217;d be pretty yummy if they were, wouldn&#8217;t they?<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m diving back into sorting through my reader notes. Each one makes this story so much better and that makes Holly a happy girl.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my Saturday. Hanging out with notes from my beta readers. I love getting thoughts and comments from readers. Back when I wrote my first book and got my first beta reader for it I was scared to death to get her emails. So sure she was going to hate what she read and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}