{"id":13814,"date":"2021-07-19T22:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=13814"},"modified":"2021-07-19T22:00:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T04:00:20","slug":"camp-nanowrimo-day-nineteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/camp-nanowrimo-day-nineteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Camp NaNoWriMo: Day Nineteen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"139\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/camp-nanowrimo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13677\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Words written: 957<\/li><li>Total stories written: 2<\/li><li>Total words written: 13,223<\/li><li>Total words remaining: 16,777<\/li><li>Total words behind: 5,169<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Finished that story, finally! It&#8217;s actually not that bad. Working title is &#8220;In the Wake of Zedekiah Wight.&#8221; It&#8217;s 8.5k words, which is about 3k-4k more words than it should be, but with a bit of work I think I can cut it down. Will probably do that as a side project sometime in the next few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not a super huge writing day today because I helped my sister pick up some stuff from her storage unit down in Manti, and also had to make a Costco run. That took up the whole afternoon, but I did get a good start on the next story, with the working title &#8220;Tolerant and Fair.&#8221; It is just about the most politically incorrect story I could possibly write, and may actually get banned (or get me banned) from Amazon if I publish it. No joke. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main character is a twenty-something girl who grew up with three lesbian \/ gender-nonbinary parents, and she rebelled by dating a straight-edge Christian boy and becoming a Christian herself. They are now about to elope together after joining a colony mission to Mars, but he wants her to introduce him to her parents over a family dinner, so that she won&#8217;t regret it later after they&#8217;ve eloped. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basically, it&#8217;s the whole &#8220;Mom, Dad, meet my rebel boyfriend&#8221; sort of meeting with the disapproving parents, except that the religious conservative is the rebel boyfriend and the ultra-liberal types are the disapproving American Gothic parents. It is going to be so much fun to write, and even more fun to submit. I really might submit it to Clarkesworld, Uncanny, and Escape Pod, just to get a rejection that says &#8220;please do not submit anything to us ever again.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in all seriousness, I know that this story will be on thin ice with Amazon, especially with how they&#8217;ve banned <em>When Harry Became Sally<\/em> (which I own now, by the way. It&#8217;s on the TBR). And in all seriousness, I intend to approach the transgender issue with some sensitivity to those who take the other side\u2014but I&#8217;m not going to shy away from the fact that I really do think a lot of these girls are being deliberately misdiagnosed and permanently mutilated by a healthcare system that has been totally taken over by radical activists promoting an ideological agenda at their expense. Glenn Beck recently did an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glennbeck.com\/glenn-beck-podcast\/trans-activism-will-end-your-parental-rights-abigail-shrier-ep-110\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.glennbeck.com\/glenn-beck-podcast\/trans-activism-will-end-your-parental-rights-abigail-shrier-ep-110\">interview with Abigail Shrier<\/a> where they discussed that very topic. Excellent podcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So yeah, I&#8217;m super excited about that story. With luck, it should be finished in the next couple of days. I know that I&#8217;m running behind on my word count for camp nanowrimo, but I really do think I can get it back up before the end, especially with a couple of these projects that I&#8217;m really driven to write. Just need a couple of days to really ramp it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words written: 957 Total stories written: 2 Total words written: 13,223 Total words remaining: 16,777 Total words behind: 5,169 Finished that story, finally! It&#8217;s actually not that bad. Working title is &#8220;In the Wake of Zedekiah Wight.&#8221; It&#8217;s 8.5k words, which is about 3k-4k more words than it should be, but with a bit of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/camp-nanowrimo-day-nineteen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Camp NaNoWriMo: Day Nineteen<\/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":[170,1],"tags":[1383,1395,1182,1397],"class_list":["post-13814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-stories","category-uncategorized","tag-anti-woke","tag-camp-nanowrimo-july-2021","tag-political-correctness","tag-zedekiah-wight","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-3AO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814","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=13814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13815,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814\/revisions\/13815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}