{"id":6783,"date":"2012-01-04T22:26:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T03:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=6783"},"modified":"2012-01-04T22:26:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T03:26:09","slug":"getting-back-into-things-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/getting-back-into-things-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting back into things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry I haven&#8217;t posted much lately; I just got back to Massachusetts from a cross-country train trip (after spending Christmas between Utah and Texas), and I&#8217;m still getting situated here at my parents&#8217; house. \u00a0If all goes well, I&#8217;ll be leaving by the end of the month to teach English in Georgia; worst case scenario, I sign up for a different program and spend a few more months here than I&#8217;d bargained for.<\/p>\n<p>Things on the writing front are going well, though; I&#8217;ve been pulling between 1.5k and 2.5k words per day pretty consistently, all on <strong>Stars of Blood and Glory.<\/strong>\u00a0 It&#8217;s very refreshing to be working on a new project again, and while I don&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;m into it as much as I could, with nothing else to distract me hopefully that will soon change.<\/p>\n<p>One other interesting thing I&#8217;m doing right now is keeping track of the stats for my writing sessions: how many words I write, what times I start and finish, how many words per hour I average, etc. \u00a0The data is turning out to be quite interesting, so once I get to about 50 or 100 data points, I&#8217;ll post my findings. \u00a0It&#8217;s definitely giving me some much needed insight into my writing process.<\/p>\n<p>In the next couple of days, I&#8217;ll post the ebook\u00a0numbers for December and my quarterly report (I might actually combine the two into one post, come to think of it). \u00a0Also, I&#8217;ll finally get around to sending out the email newsletter, with some goodies like desktop wallpaper for <strong>Desert Stars.<\/strong>\u00a0 If you haven&#8217;t yet signed up for the newsletter, you can do that via the form on the sidebar. &#8212;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, to round things out, I&#8217;ll link you to this awesome Final Fantasy VI tribute I found on teh internets:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N1QgLqWb0rE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Man, such an awesome, awesome game.  I almost did a full length novelization of FF6.  Instead, I wrote my first novel.  It was definitely the better choice at the time&#8230;but a part of me still wants to revisit that world through writing my own fanfic.  Someday, maybe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry I haven&#8217;t posted much lately; I just got back to Massachusetts from a cross-country train trip (after spending Christmas between Utah and Texas), and I&#8217;m still getting situated here at my parents&#8217; house. \u00a0If all goes well, I&#8217;ll be leaving by the end of the month to teach English in Georgia; worst case scenario,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/getting-back-into-things-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Getting back into things<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,569],"tags":[676,343,677,495,148],"class_list":["post-6783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ds","category-sbg","tag-fanfic","tag-final-fantasy-6","tag-statistics","tag-teaching-english-abroad","tag-travel","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1Lp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783","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=6783"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6787,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783\/revisions\/6787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}