{"id":1435,"date":"2025-08-31T17:24:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T21:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2025-09-30T22:22:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:22:20","slug":"just-send-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/?p=1435","title":{"rendered":"Just Send It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/?p=1427\">&lt;&#8211; Previous Comic<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/?p=1442\">Next Comic&#8211;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1436\" src=\"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/issue171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"829\" height=\"746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/issue171.jpg 829w, https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/issue171-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/issue171-768x691.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/?p=1427\">&lt;&#8211; Previous Comic<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/?p=1442\">Next Comic&#8211;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seriously. Once is enough. If you&#8217;ve got a properly edited document, don&#8217;t drive yourself up the wall rereading it before every submission. Read your query letters and cover letters carefully, sure, but don&#8217;t do it tensely and obsessively. And yes, if it&#8217;s been a while since you read the submission guidelines, you might wanna make sure they haven&#8217;t changed in the meantime, but you can read them once and maybe make a little list of bullet points for anything that&#8217;s relevant. You can overdo it on &#8220;making sure&#8221; and end up forever feeling like you&#8217;re not ready yet, and you might even waste energy obsessing over it after you send it out, hoping you didn&#8217;t make a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Relax. Take it seriously, but relax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;&#8211; Previous Comic\u00a0 \u00a0Next Comic&#8211;&gt; &lt;&#8211; Previous Comic\u00a0 \u00a0Next Comic&#8211;&gt; Seriously. Once is enough. If you&#8217;ve got a properly edited document, don&#8217;t drive yourself up the wall rereading it before every submission. Read your query letters and cover letters carefully, sure, but don&#8217;t do it tensely and obsessively. And yes, if it&#8217;s been a while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions\/1445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}