{"id":119,"date":"2010-05-03T20:46:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T20:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardpnixon.wordpress.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2010-05-03T20:46:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T20:46:28","slug":"time-to-put-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/03\/time-to-put-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to Put Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s funny &#8211; I&#8217;ve been working on this book for a long time, or since early 2009 depending on how you look at it, and early on I was so anxious to send it out to agents and publishers. And I did send it off to two agents &#8211; one never responded (probably because I messed up the submission &#8211; that&#8217;s a big no no), and the other sent me a personal response with some ideas of what to do next. I took those suggestions and went to town.<\/p>\n<p>For the past several months I&#8217;ve been writing and rewriting and having the manuscript read by a variety of different people, then rewriting again depending on the feedback I received (most of which was fantastic and very helpful).<\/p>\n<p>I then let the book simmer while I tried to think of anything but, and as I did so I had new ideas and details pop up that I had to include. I went through the draft looking for logical errors and obvious flaws and fixed them.<\/p>\n<p>Then I figured I&#8217;d shoot a new promotional video to replace the one that sounds so &#8220;dorky&#8221;, and while I was at it I&#8217;d fix the website. Then after all that I&#8217;d send the manuscript out.<\/p>\n<p>Well, guess what? I think I&#8217;m creating excuses to put off the inevitable. So I did some minor changes to the website and have removed the old annoying video altogether. Oh, I&#8217;ll shoot a new one sometime down the road, but for now I need to shift my priorities and focus on getting published.<\/p>\n<p>Wish me luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s funny &#8211; I&#8217;ve been working on this book for a long time, or since early 2009 depending on how you look at it, and early on I was so anxious to send it out to agents and publishers. And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/03\/time-to-put-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}