{"id":5002,"date":"2009-07-13T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannacoca.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/13\/the-waiting-game"},"modified":"2014-08-01T02:38:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T08:38:27","slug":"the-waiting-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/the-waiting-game","title":{"rendered":"The Waiting Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I&nbsp;first looked into the pub\u00adlish\u00ading process, most of the advice revolved around the word \u201cwait\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sub\u00admit your query, then wait. An answer could be months in com\u00ading. Sub\u00admit your man\u00adu\u00adscript, then wait. Sell your book? Yay! Now wait for edit\u00ading to start. Edit\u00ading done? Yay! Now wait for a&nbsp;release date.<\/p>\n<p>This is even more dif\u00adfi\u00adcult for peo\u00adple like me who are so impa\u00adtient. By the time I&nbsp;get to the edit\u00ading process, I&nbsp;have to reread the thing to remem\u00adber which book it is I\u2019m editing!<\/p>\n<p>So what do I&nbsp;do while I&nbsp;wait? I&nbsp;write.  Wait, write, wait, write, wait. (Say that five times fast.) Okay, I&nbsp;guess that\u2019s all I&nbsp;have to say. I\u2019ve got some wait\u00ading to do, so I\u2019d bet\u00adter hur\u00adry&nbsp;up.<\/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>When I&nbsp;first looked into the pub\u00adlish\u00ading process, most of the advice revolved around the word \u201cwait\u201d. Sub\u00admit your query, then wait. An answer could be months in com\u00ading. Sub\u00admit&nbsp;your&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":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3WdCY-1iG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002"}],"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=5002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}