{"id":3940,"date":"2015-08-14T10:46:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T15:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=3940"},"modified":"2015-08-14T10:46:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T15:46:06","slug":"thats-a-nice-little-simile-you-got-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/14\/thats-a-nice-little-simile-you-got-there\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s a nice little simile you got there&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx3\/blog\/nice_little_simile.jpg\" alt=\"That's a Nice Little Simile You Got There\" width=\"501\" height=\"648\" class=\"img_wide_open\">\n<p>Back when my agent was negotiating the contract for <em>Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom<\/em>, I was aware that my editor had a lot of projects on his plate; heck, even <em>he<\/em> was aware. It was him who told me.<\/p>\n<p>Which is great, of course: you like to see good people working, after all. But it concerned me a little.<\/p>\n<p>So I proposed a new clause for the contract: the Pierrot Clause. Any time I had to wait for feedback from my editor, he would be required to wear a Pierrot costume. All day. Every day.<\/p>\n<p>Me, I thought this was genius. Who <em>wouldn&#8217;t<\/em> want to see people contractually compelled to wear costumes out of Commedia dell&#8217;arte? I mean, it&#8217;s literate <em>and<\/em> it&#8217;s ridiculous. Everybody wins!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Steven King could get the Pierrot Clause into his contracts. Sadly, <em>I<\/em> just don&#8217;t have the clout; I had to give it up. This is perhaps the biggest reason why I&#8217;d like to be a bestselling author. I&#8217;m  convinced that the Pierrot Clause is a thing that&#8217;s meant to be.<\/p>\n<p>So, maybe next time. In the meantime, though, and in the <em>most polite way possible<\/em>, I am waiting for feedback from my very busy editor, and I&#8217;ve decided that what we have right here is the next best thing. I will <em>imagine<\/em> him giving me feedback. In full color. As often as necessary. With ray guns.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to see what he has to tell me about exposition and passive constructions. Maybe next week!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the meantime, and in the most polite way possible, I am waiting for feedback from my very busy editor and I&#8217;ve decided that what we have right here is the next best thing. I will imagine him giving me feedback. In full color. As often as necessary. With ray guns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imaginary-editor"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}