A short but intense bout of the flu on Tuesday kept me from one of my writing appointments last week.\u00c2\u00a0 Does a 50% average mean I flunk writing for the week?\u00c2\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
There is a lot of “business” behind the writing and it’s easy to get caught up in it.\u00c2\u00a0 For instance, on Saturdays I get an email about updated markets from Duotrope<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and I usually spend 15 to 30 minutes pouring over this email and clicking on links.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s easy to get distracted.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n On Sunday I spent some time typing up bits and pieces of three short stories.\u00c2\u00a0 Having it all in one place organizes thoughts but can also be a bit of a curse.\u00c2\u00a0 A writing prompt I began a few weeks ago has already turned into a short story of over 1000 words.\u00c2\u00a0 With the bits and pieces in one place I nearly smacked my head when I thought, “This could easily be the beginning of a novel if I expand this section and turn a minor character into a major one.”\u00c2\u00a0 I’m tempted to work on it this week to shape it\u00c2\u00a0 up but I may work on a shorter piece first so I can put it to rest before editing it.<\/p>\n It feels good to keep moving forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A short but intense bout of the flu on Tuesday kept me from one of my writing appointments last week.\u00c2\u00a0 Does a 50% average mean I flunk writing for the week?\u00c2\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42 There is a lot of “business” behind the writing and it’s easy to get caught up in it.\u00c2\u00a0 For instance, on Saturdays I… Continue reading Writing Progress This Week<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","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=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}