{"id":310,"date":"2008-11-08T23:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T04:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/nanowrimo-update-1\/"},"modified":"2013-01-02T00:59:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T05:59:54","slug":"nanowrimo-update-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/nanowrimo-update-1\/","title":{"rendered":"NaNoWriMo Update #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Things going fairly well this NaNo season, if not for the ennui and the self-sabotage and whatnot. I am about a thousand words ahead of where I was a couple of years ago. Which is okay, but not great. I&#8217;d really rather not have to write so much at the very end in order to win. Unfortunately, I managed to kill the stats from last year&#8217;s attempt, so I have no idea where I am in relation to a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>But no matter. Things are progressing. I&#8217;m exploring more&#8211;which I guess you have to do when you start with only a couple of characters and a vague idea of what might happen&#8211;so I have some snippets of POV from some other characters hanging out in a file. They might get inserted (or not).<\/p>\n<p>Big surprise for this year: third person. I&#8217;ve been so immersed in the first person voice for the past three mss I&#8217;ve written, it was weird to have a bunch of &#8220;she saids&#8221; pop out. I have opening paragraphs written in both perspectives, so maybe after the mayhem stops I&#8217;ll send both to Dream Agent and see what she thinks.<\/p>\n<p>For now, though, bedtime. It&#8217;s hard to write with the eyelids at half-mast and the head jerking thing going on.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things going fairly well this NaNo season, if not for the ennui and the self-sabotage and whatnot. I am about a thousand words ahead of where I was a couple of years ago. Which is okay, but not great. I&#8217;d really rather not have to write so much at the very end in order to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[39,16],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31G3g-50","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1452,"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/1452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}