{"id":5004,"date":"2009-07-20T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannacoca.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/20\/no-pain-no-gain"},"modified":"2014-08-01T02:38:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T08:38:27","slug":"no-pain-no-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/no-pain-no-gain","title":{"rendered":"No Pain No Gain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alannacoca.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/editingdemotivatorfeb07_med1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/alannacoca.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/editingdemotivatorfeb07_med1.jpg?w=300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Gotta love the editing process. Here&#8230; let&#8217;s take the words that you spent so long trying to find, and we&#8217;ll change &#8217;em. You liked that phrase? Too bad. That should be italicized, this should be quoted. <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>Really, as painful as it is sometimes, I always come out of the process with a book that is many times better than what went into the queue.<\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>Today I start editing on Preja Vu, and just to add to the fun, it&#8217;s an editor that I haven&#8217;t worked with yet.  I&#8217;m very excited, but nervous! What if she hates my work?  <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>Okay, so I&#8217;m a little paranoid, but we writers put so much of our souls into our craft, and it&#8217;s hard to trust someone else with it. Even a professional.  Okay, enough cry baby whining. I&#8217;ve got some work to do!<\/div>\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>Gotta love the editing process. Here&#8230; let&#8217;s take the words that you spent so long trying to find, and we&#8217;ll change &#8217;em. You liked that phrase? Too bad. That should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3WdCY-1iI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004"}],"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=5004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}