{"id":2277,"date":"2010-03-17T10:38:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T17:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2014-08-01T02:38:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T08:38:25","slug":"angst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/angst","title":{"rendered":"Angst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2278\" src=\"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/angst.jpg\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"300\">I don\u2019t know what\u2019s wrong with me. I\u2019ve got a&nbsp;book 99% fin\u00adished. The end is so close I&nbsp;could write it in a&nbsp;few hours. Why then, am I&nbsp;not doing just that? I&nbsp;keep find\u00ading oth\u00ader things to occu\u00adpy myself. A&nbsp;shiny new romance book taunts me from my desk\u00adtop. Just <em>one more<\/em> tweak on the web\u00adsite. One 140 char\u00adac\u00adter tweet on twit\u00adter. Maybe I\u2019ll just <em>check face\u00adbook<\/em> to see what\u2019s going on. Noth\u00ading? That\u2019s okay, I&nbsp;have forums to haunt, peo\u00adple to send sense\u00adless text mes\u00adsages, and maybe a&nbsp;movie or two to&nbsp;watch.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m pret\u00adty sure the trou\u00adble lies in the stress that comes with a&nbsp;fin\u00adished book. If I&nbsp;have one in progress, then I\u2019m \u201cwrit\u00ading\u201d. Once it\u2019s fin\u00adished, I&nbsp;have to fig\u00adure out where I&nbsp;want to sub\u00admit it. Once I\u2019ve decid\u00aded <em>that<\/em> I&nbsp;have to actu\u00adal\u00adly do the work to send it in (if the pub requires a&nbsp;syn\u00adop\u00adsis, that\u2019s a&nbsp;whole \u2018nother issue!) Then comes the worst&nbsp;part.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"caps\">WAITING<\/span>. The fact that after sub\u00admit\u00adting to a&nbsp;pub\u00adlish\u00ader, I&nbsp;have to wait two to six months to hear a&nbsp;yes or no\u2026nerve wrack\u00ading to say the least. Maybe sub\u00adcon\u00adscious\u00adly I\u2019m putting off the stress of wait\u00ading, when real\u00adly I&nbsp;should fin\u00adish the darn thing so I&nbsp;can get the wait\u00ading over with. Now I\u2019m search\u00ading the\u00c2&nbsp;Inter\u00adnet for a&nbsp;slap in the face. Let\u2019s hope I&nbsp;don\u2019t get distracted.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t know what\u2019s wrong with me. I\u2019ve got a&nbsp;book 99% fin\u00adished. The end is so close I&nbsp;could write it in a&nbsp;few hours. Why then, am I&nbsp;not doing just&nbsp;that?&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"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,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3WdCY-angst","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}