{"id":13089,"date":"2020-11-12T21:21:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T04:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=13089"},"modified":"2020-11-12T21:21:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T04:21:11","slug":"nanowrimo-2020-day-twelve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/nanowrimo-2020-day-twelve\/","title":{"rendered":"NaNoWriMo 2020 Day Twelve"},"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>Words written: 862<\/li><li>Total words written: 15,688<\/li><li>Stories written: 2<\/li><li>Total words behind: 4,312<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Another day of very little progress. It feels very weird to write a story that I haven&#8217;t spent much time planning or thinking about first. I suppose this is what Dean Wesley Smith would call &#8220;writing into the dark,&#8221; but personally, I don&#8217;t subscribe to his philosophy of creativity. Everything worth doing should be done twice: first in the planning, whether consciously or subconsciously, then in the execution. There is no such thing as &#8220;plotters&#8221; or &#8220;pantsers,&#8221; only different ways to prewrite a story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it wasn&#8217;t that I was blocked so much as that the day was just packed. Baby Hiccup required a fair amount of attention today, and we went to the library in the afternoon (as I chronicled <a href=\"https:\/\/onelowerlight.com\/books\/2020\/11\/13\/november-12th-orem-library-trip\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/onelowerlight.com\/books\/2020\/11\/13\/november-12th-orem-library-trip\/\">on my book blog<\/a>). Also had to send out my email newsletter, and while it was already written, updating all the lists took time. And then there&#8217;s all the household chores\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What am I saing? No excuses. Today was a low word count day, but the story is coming together, even if it feels like there&#8217;s the wrong end of a magnet on my butt. I&#8217;ll get it done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words written: 862 Total words written: 15,688 Stories written: 2 Total words behind: 4,312 Another day of very little progress. It feels very weird to write a story that I haven&#8217;t spent much time planning or thinking about first. I suppose this is what Dean Wesley Smith would call &#8220;writing into the dark,&#8221; but personally,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/nanowrimo-2020-day-twelve\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NaNoWriMo 2020 Day Twelve<\/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],"class_list":["post-13089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nanowrimo-2020","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-3p7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13089","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=13089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13090,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13089\/revisions\/13090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}