{"id":13062,"date":"2020-11-02T21:56:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T04:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=13062"},"modified":"2020-11-02T21:56:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T04:56:41","slug":"nanowrimo-2020-day-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/nanowrimo-2020-day-two\/","title":{"rendered":"NaNoWriMo 2020 Day Two"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Logo_of_National_Novel_Writing_Month.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13057\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Date: Monday, November 1st<\/li><li>Words written: 630<\/li><li>Total words written: 630<\/li><li>Stories written: 0<\/li><li>Words behind: 2703<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Off to a bit of a rocky start, but it&#8217;s not as bad as it appears. Counting the words in my other WIP, I made about 1,600. Just had to tie it up at a good stopping place, but now that that&#8217;s done, I should be able to focus on NaNoWriMo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first story I&#8217;m writing is a fantasy piece pulled from an outline for a longer novel in the same universe as <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?mbt_book=the-sword-keeper\" data-type=\"mbt_book\" data-id=\"10586\">The Sword Keeper.<\/a><\/em> I have very little idea where I&#8217;m going with it, and since I don&#8217;t want to draw it out longer than a few thousand words, that could be a problem. It has a great opening line, though:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Everyone secretly wants to be a slave. That is the universal truth that no one wants to admit. Those who deny it simply haven&#8217;t met their true masters yet.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I can finish it tomorrow, or at least get halfway. The thing about short stories is that when I get into the zone with one, I can knock off four or five thousand words easily. It turns into a race to the finish line, and since the ending is so much closer with a short story than with a novel, that enthusiasm feeds on itself until it&#8217;s done. If I don&#8217;t finish this one tomorrow, I&#8217;ll almost certainly finish it the next day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Monday, November 1st Words written: 630 Total words written: 630 Stories written: 0 Words behind: 2703 Off to a bit of a rocky start, but it&#8217;s not as bad as it appears. Counting the words in my other WIP, I made about 1,600. Just had to tie it up at a good stopping place,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/nanowrimo-2020-day-two\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NaNoWriMo 2020 Day Two<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1337,322],"class_list":["post-13062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nanowrimo-2020","tag-novels-vs-short-stories","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-3oG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13062","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=13062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13063,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13062\/revisions\/13063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}