{"id":4509,"date":"2011-03-12T01:36:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T08:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=4509"},"modified":"2011-03-12T01:36:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T08:36:33","slug":"momentum-slowly-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/momentum-slowly-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Momentum slowly building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote about 2.2k words today in ITND&#8211;not a bad amount, but I feel as if it could have been much more.\u00a0 I think I spent more time thinking about the novel than I did actually writing it, which is either 1) a sign that I&#8217;m procrastinating too much, or 2) a sign that I&#8217;m slowly building momentum.<\/p>\n<p>Trouble is, it&#8217;s hard to tell the difference between the two.\u00a0 When I haven&#8217;t worked on a project for a while, I&#8217;m often restless for a couple of days before I settle back into the zone.\u00a0 The weird thing, though, is that while I&#8217;m pacing restlessly around, I&#8217;ll be writing out lines of dialog or paragraphs of description in my head.\u00a0 Weird.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ve got a good idea where I&#8217;m going with this project, though.\u00a0 The thing that hung me up on the first attempt was that I did a poor job introducing one of the viewpoint characters (Kyla Jeppson), even though I did a good job outlining her.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve given that scene to my online writing group, so hopefully they&#8217;ll give me some good feedback tomorrow.\u00a0 However, I still have to read the other submissions, and it&#8217;s getting late, so I&#8217;ll probably just cut this short and go to bed.<\/p>\n<p>But first&#8230;what the heck, provo craigslist?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/sketchy-craigslist2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4514 alignleft\" title=\"sketchy-craigslist2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/sketchy-craigslist2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>I swear, one hundred years from now, our contemporary attitudes towards women will seem as wrong-headed and despicable as the last century&#8217;s attitudes seems to us.\u00a0 Honestly, which is worse: turning women into domestic house slaves, or turning them into mindless sex objects?\u00a0 And we consider ourselves feminists&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230;but that&#8217;s a post for another time.\u00a0 G&#8217;night!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote about 2.2k words today in ITND&#8211;not a bad amount, but I feel as if it could have been much more.\u00a0 I think I spent more time thinking about the novel than I did actually writing it, which is either 1) a sign that I&#8217;m procrastinating too much, or 2) a sign that I&#8217;m&hellip; 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