{"id":801,"date":"2019-12-03T19:50:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T23:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=801"},"modified":"2019-12-03T19:50:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T23:50:19","slug":"nano-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=801","title":{"rendered":"NaNo, lost."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By week three, I had lost all interest in <em>The Band Singer<\/em>, mostly because I was exhausted. On Thanksgiving week, I had planned to wrap it up at least. I couldn&#8217;t even get the gumption to go online to a Google Hangout Virtual Write-In. I was in my big comfy chair or in bed most of the weekend, dozing on and off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heck, I didn&#8217;t even do the podcast. Next week, promise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now I&#8217;m ready to put that novel aside and start something new. But what? And this time I&#8217;m going to plan it out a little more, but not the end. That&#8217;s what killed it for me last time. Seeing the end on-screen, even if it was just a blurb, solidified it for me, saying &#8220;You&#8217;ve written the story.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m going to wait to see where my next idea shows up from. I want to branch out from the Urban Fantasy\/Magical Detective genre. But I love mysteries, going way back (Scooby-Doo, anyone?). Though it&#8217;s something I like to read, I want to put a different spin on it. I&#8217;ve read some real trash in the Urban Fantasy field recently, so I know what I <em>don&#8217;t <\/em>like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe another Grim story?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By week three, I had lost all interest in The Band Singer, mostly because I was exhausted. On Thanksgiving week, I had planned to wrap it up at least. I couldn&#8217;t even get the gumption to go online to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=801\">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":[7,4,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-characters","category-inspiration","category-nanowrimo","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","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=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}