{"id":1009,"date":"2024-09-01T06:44:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T10:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2024-09-01T06:44:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T10:44:55","slug":"reading-more-than-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=1009","title":{"rendered":"Reading more than writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have found I can read an average of one book a week. I&#8217;m spending my free time reading, forcing myself to finish books. I&#8217;ve read a cozy mystery, a fantasy set on a different planet, a non-fiction book about castaways who return to England, and a novel of Chinese women. Also a well-written, detailed dark fantasy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did some writing, more for me than for publication. I guess I need to practice writing, and need to update my<a href=\"https:\/\/800words.net\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/800words.net\/\"> 800 words<\/a> blog with whatever garbage I spill out every day to make myself accountable. I need to try writing every day. Planning is not the same. I&#8217;m trying to plan out my MC, and I have a couple of other characters in mind. I don&#8217;t have a plot. Just a character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I need to &#8220;fill the well&#8221; with story ideas. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m reading so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I need a new keyboard. I keep overreaching so I keep missing letters. I&#8217;m doing a lot of backspacing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have found I can read an average of one book a week. I&#8217;m spending my free time reading, forcing myself to finish books. I&#8217;ve read a cozy mystery, a fantasy set on a different planet, a non-fiction book about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=1009\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions\/1010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}