{"id":1306,"date":"2016-12-08T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2016-12-07T17:55:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T01:55:32","slug":"the-blog-that-almost-wasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/2016\/12\/08\/the-blog-that-almost-wasnt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blog That Almost Wasn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s Wednesday which means its time to do the blog. \u00a0The problem is, the blog is a labor of love. \u00a0My day job\u2014my real job\u2014is, as you all know, writing books. \u00a0And today the day job is demanding my full attention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s not writing today\u2014it\u2019s editing. \u00a0More specifically, copy-editing. Imagine your worst nightmare high school English teacher, arming herself with a red pen and going through your paper word for word, marking it up like crazy as she goes. \u00a0That\u2019s what\u2019s happening here, only in this case the paper is more than four-hundred pages long. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Because the editing is all being done in an electronic file, every time I make a change, I have to sit there and wait for the windmill-of-death to go round and round for an undetermined period of time. In other words this is maddeningly slow. Excruciatingly slow. But it has to be done, because editing is important. Professional editors are important.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The book I\u2019m working on, Man Overboard, is a complex story that has characters operating in several different time zones. As the copy-editor in New York was working away with his corrections, he kept changing the time zone references on me. I finally figured out that he had no idea Arizona doesn\u2019t acknowledge daylight savings time. That misunderstanding added a whole other layer of complexity to the job, and meant that I had to stop on page 244 and go back to the beginning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So that\u2019s what I\u2019m doing. Christmas shopping? Nope. Christmas decorating? Nope.Christmas cards? Nope. I\u2019m still getting my steps, barely, but I\u2019m doing them inside the house because right now it\u2019s too damned cold outside.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Such is a writer&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Wednesday which means its time to do the blog. \u00a0The problem is, the blog is a labor of love. \u00a0My day job\u2014my real job\u2014is, as you all know, writing books. \u00a0And today the day job is demanding my full attention. It\u2019s not writing today\u2014it\u2019s editing. \u00a0More specifically, copy-editing. 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