{"id":189,"date":"2008-03-11T23:41:38","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T06:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=189"},"modified":"2008-03-11T23:41:38","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T06:41:38","slug":"2578-words-tonightwhew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/2578-words-tonightwhew\/","title":{"rendered":"2,578 words tonight&#8230;whew!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Booooooooooooooo yeah!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I figured that I have only 45 days left to finish this novel.\u00a0 <em>45 days<\/em>.\u00a0 But the cool part is that I think I can do it!\u00a0 I sketched out a very rough outline (which leaves out a lot in the last chapter, except where I want everyone to be by the end), and I&#8217;ve got maybe three or four chapters left!\u00a0 Yay!<\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s still going to take a lot of work.\u00a0 These past few months, I&#8217;ve been doing maybe a chapter every other week.\u00a0 I usually throw in a couple of different viewpoints, plus the rising falling action and the climax.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to have to hurry that up if I&#8217;m going to have this whole thing ready.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting to the part where the aliens start to figure in.\u00a0 One problem, though, is that I might be making things a little too obvious.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not that I want to keep the reader guessing, I want to keep the tension high and preserve the shock effect, so when the really big stuff starts coming out, everone is surprised.<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230;I&#8217;m really tired.\u00a0 So I&#8217;m going to go to bed.\u00a0 But the cool thing is that I made my daily goal to be at a certain place in the story before I go to bed!\u00a0 It took me nearly 2,600 words to get there, but I did it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Booooooooooooooo yeah!<\/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-189","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-33","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","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=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}