{"id":2033,"date":"2009-11-14T20:15:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T00:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2009-11-14T20:15:49","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T00:15:49","slug":"almost-the-ides-of-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=2033","title":{"rendered":"Almost the Ides of November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s November and that means it is National Novel Writing Month.\u00c2\u00a0 Writers of all kinds sit down and write.\u00c2\u00a0 At this point, everyone that is on track to &#8220;win&#8221; should be at 23338 words.\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow they will hit the 25,000 word mark.<\/p>\n<p>According to the official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\">NaNoWriMo web site<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0the participants have written 1,040,165,647 words so far.\u00c2\u00a0 Just over 13,000 of those are mine.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, I am behind in my word count.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, I do have a holiday coming up.\u00c2\u00a0 And yes, I still plan on finishing before the month is over.\u00c2\u00a0 That doesn&#8217;t mean I don&#8217;t panic a little when I think of how many words I need to write each day for the rest of the month.\u00c2\u00a0 I do &#8211; I&#8217;m just not willing to give into it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done a few things differently this year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I usually don&#8217;t read anything while I am writing in November.<\/li>\n<li>I usually start with knowing my main character and several secondary characters.<\/li>\n<li>I usually have plot points that I can write around.\u00c2\u00a0 If I get bored with one I can move on to the next one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Like every year I&#8217;ve attempted this, it&#8217;s been a learning experience.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, if you&#8217;ll excuse me, I must go write. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s November and that means it is National Novel Writing Month.\u00c2\u00a0 Writers of all kinds sit down and write.\u00c2\u00a0 At this point, everyone that is on track to &#8220;win&#8221; should be at 23338 words.\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow they will hit the 25,000 word mark. According to the official NaNoWriMo web site\u00c2\u00a0the participants have written 1,040,165,647 words&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=2033\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Almost the Ides of November<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,54],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-2033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","category-writing","tag-nanowrimo","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2036,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions\/2036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}