{"id":798,"date":"2019-11-24T19:07:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T23:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=798"},"modified":"2019-11-24T19:07:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T23:07:32","slug":"nano-week-blah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=798","title":{"rendered":"NaNo, Week Blah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>24,000 words of blech. Note to Self: don&#8217;t write the end first. That&#8217;s the main reason I&#8217;m bored with this story&#8211;I not only know the end, but I wrote it out already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotten the action, and now I need to do the build-up to make the character famous. But it&#8217;s so unrealistic how I&#8217;m going to do it, and there&#8217;s so much time between when that happens and where I&#8217;m at, that I don&#8217;t know what to do. I&#8217;m tempted to just jump to the sections that I know will happen, even if they&#8217;re days, weeks, months ahead in the timeline for the story. If I do that, the story will be much less than 50K words. However, also, if I do that, it will at least be finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not to mention that dialysis is a bear and I sleep for almost 12 hours a night because of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next weekend I&#8217;m being held accountable by doing writing for NaNo at<a href=\"http:\/\/http\/\/paperangelpress.com\/writein\"> a virtual write-in.<\/a> I&#8217;ll be there about 8 pm Eastern (past my bedtime) on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24,000 words of blech. Note to Self: don&#8217;t write the end first. That&#8217;s the main reason I&#8217;m bored with this story&#8211;I not only know the end, but I wrote it out already. I&#8217;ve gotten the action, and now I need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=798\">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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanowrimo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","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=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}