{"id":3225,"date":"2017-03-02T17:01:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T17:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/If-I-had-stayed-in-publishing-instead-of-moving-to-tech-writing-and-thence-into-IT-I-would-have-hit-the-same"},"modified":"2017-03-02T17:01:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T17:01:43","slug":"if-i-had-stayed-in-publishing-instead-of-moving-to-tech-writing-and-thence-into-it-i-would-have-hit-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2017\/03\/02\/if-i-had-stayed-in-publishing-instead-of-moving-to-tech-writing-and-thence-into-it-i-would-have-hit-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"If I had stayed in publishing instead of moving to tech writing and thence into IT, I would have hit the same&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>If I had stayed in publishing instead of moving to tech writing and thence into IT, I would have hit the same problem this woman had: it&#8217;s hard to be an acquisitions editor when your taste doesn&#8217;t match the market&#8217;s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More power to those who can &#8220;write to market,&#8221; but some of us can&#8217;t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by Karen Conlin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peternelle is one of my Tweeps. Her first novel, <em>The Beast Is an Animal,<\/em> just hit the shelves. Part of the process was keeping a prologue she added at what she thought was the end of the process, and ditching the other 250 pages to start over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The voice that I found in that prologue was <em>my<\/em> voice.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttp:\/\/lithub.com\/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-about-the-market-and-just-write\/<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        If I had stayed in publishing instead of moving to tech writing and thence into IT, I would have hit the same&#8230;<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2017\/03\/02\/if-i-had-stayed-in-publishing-instead-of-moving-to-tech-writing-and-thence-into-it-i-would-have-hit-the-same\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}