{"id":1275,"date":"2009-11-09T00:07:35","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T07:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2009-11-10T23:37:29","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T06:37:29","slug":"i-need-a-new-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/i-need-a-new-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"I need a new deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two, actually. \u00a0I&#8217;ve got two unfinished projects, both of them on the sidebar: <em>Genesis Earth 4.0<\/em> and <em>Bringing Stella Home 2.0,<\/em> both of which have stalled in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m thinking: I&#8217;m currently <em>swamped<\/em> with school, and have been for the last several weeks, but after tomorrow, most of the urgent important stuff will be finished, and I&#8217;ll have some breathing space until after Thanksgiving break.<\/p>\n<p>That <em>should<\/em> be enough time to finish <em>Genesis Earth,<\/em> at least before the end of the break. \u00a0It will require some commitment, but that&#8217;s what personal deadlines are for, right? \u00a0Making a commitment.<\/p>\n<p>As for <em>Bringing Stella Home,<\/em> it&#8217;s been so long since I&#8217;ve worked on that beast, I&#8217;m not sure what state it&#8217;s in. \u00a0I do know that I&#8217;ll have to do a complete rewrite from the beginning before it&#8217;s anywhere near submittable. \u00a0However, I&#8217;m not going to scrap the current rewrite, because even though it isn&#8217;t fixing all the major story issues, it is helping me to put the chapters and scenes in the right order. \u00a0Without that, I won&#8217;t have a good foundation for the next rewrite&#8211;that&#8217;s what happened to me on the various revisions of <em>Ashes of the Starry Sea.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So the personal deadline I&#8217;m setting for <em>Bringing Stella Home<\/em> is the end of the year. \u00a0I want both projects to be completely finished by then, so I can start 2010 with something completely new. \u00a0It&#8217;s been <em>way<\/em> too long since I worked on a new story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two, actually. \u00a0I&#8217;ve got two unfinished projects, both of them on the sidebar: Genesis Earth 4.0 and Bringing Stella Home 2.0, both of which have stalled in recent weeks. Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m thinking: I&#8217;m currently swamped with school, and have been for the last several weeks, but after tomorrow, most of the urgent important stuff&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/i-need-a-new-deadline\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I need a new deadline<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68,32],"tags":[34,102,46],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bsh","category-ge","tag-college-life","tag-deadlines","tag-goals-and-plans","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-kz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}