{"id":139,"date":"2008-01-24T02:20:04","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T09:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=139"},"modified":"2008-01-24T02:20:04","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T09:20:04","slug":"even-if-the-writing-sucks-the-story-is-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/even-if-the-writing-sucks-the-story-is-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Even if the writing sucks, the story is good!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another update on my novel&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Today I wrote about 1,400 words into my novel.\u00a0 It was great!\u00a0 About a week ago, I had passed a minor climax in the writing, and found it pretty hard to keep the momentum on the downhill end of that rush&#8211;but I decided today to just write up to the next climax and fill in any missed details later, and things are starting to flow a lot better now!<\/p>\n<p>When I look at my novel, and at the feedback I&#8217;m getting for my other stories, I can pretty much say that my writing needs a lot of work&#8230;but even if it does, this story is cool and I&#8217;m excited about it!\u00a0 Even 80,000 words in!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have any idea how the story is going to end, but I&#8217;ve got it all planned out right up to the last twenty or so pages.\u00a0 This might not be the best way to write things, but it sure is motivating&#8211;I want to find out the ending!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another update on my novel&#8230;<\/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":[],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-the-lost-colony","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-2f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","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=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}