{"id":8952,"date":"2013-11-07T18:55:38","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T01:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=8952"},"modified":"2013-11-07T18:55:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T01:55:38","slug":"nanowrimo-is-kicking-my-butt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/nanowrimo-is-kicking-my-butt\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanowrimo is kicking my butt"},"content":{"rendered":"

… but that’s a good thing.\u00a0 While procrastinating my daily word count, I’ve almost finished Book I of Sons of the Starfarers<\/strong>, formatted and orders proofs for the first four Star Wanderers<\/strong> novellas, alpha-read most of another book for a friend, and done a bunch of other things (which is nothing compared to a friend of mine, who procrastinated by getting a job).<\/p>\n

Right now, I’ve got about 3,500 words written, which means I need to write about 2,000 words a day in order to hit 50k words before the end of the month.\u00a0 Actually, that shouldn’t be too hard–most of the difficulty of writing is just getting out of the way, so when I put my hands on the keyboard and say “whatever you do, DON’T STOP WRITING,” good things actually happen.\u00a0 At a nanowrimo get-together at Dragon’s Keep in Provo, I knocked out 1500 words in about an hour using that method.\u00a0 It’s actually quite liberating–I should do it this way more often.<\/p>\n

So why only 3,500 words, instead of the 11,666 that I’m supposed to have?\u00a0 Because I REALLY REALLY REALLY have to finish this Sons of the Starfarers<\/strong> book, and that’s been taking up virtually all of my time and mental space.\u00a0 I hit the action stuff a couple of days ago, and things were just flowing, but now it’s that last crucial scene and I’m not quite sure how to pull it off.\u00a0 Probably I’ll write something and change it later, or tell myself that at least so I can just finish it and move on.<\/p>\n

But UURGHH!<\/p>\n

Anyways, that is all.\u00a0 Back to writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… but that’s a good thing.\u00a0 While procrastinating my daily word count, I’ve almost finished Book I of Sons of the Starfarers, formatted and orders proofs for the first four Star Wanderers novellas, alpha-read most of another book for a friend, and done a bunch of other things (which is nothing compared to a friend… Continue reading Nanowrimo is kicking my butt<\/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":[862,855,857],"tags":[878],"class_list":["post-8952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ssf-i","category-ssf","category-sw","tag-nanowrimo-2013","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-2ko","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8952","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=8952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8953,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8952\/revisions\/8953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}