{"id":57,"date":"2008-06-02T22:01:50","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T02:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2008-06-02T22:01:50","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T02:01:50","slug":"busy-writing-month-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Busy Writing Month Over!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=46\" target=\"_blank\">mentioned<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0May would be a busy writing month.\u00c2\u00a0 With 45 minutes to spare, I had 31 short stories based on writing prompts written.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 There are two more half-written stories where I knew they were going to be longer than the time I had or would be best served as novels.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t write every day but I wrote more frequently than I do during a normal month.\u00c2\u00a0 Doing all that writing jars ideas loose in the head.\u00c2\u00a0 It made me want to write about things that weren&#8217;t driven by a prompt.\u00c2\u00a0 Willpower or foolishness kept me on track and I wrote the ideas down in my writing notebook.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Due to the sheer volume of stories expected in 31 days I wrote a lot of flash fiction (most of the stories\u00c2\u00a0were under 500 words).\u00c2\u00a0 This won&#8217;t be the end of those stories &#8211; at least not all of them.\u00c2\u00a0 They are going to rest for a few weeks while I get some editing done on pieces I began before the beginning of May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I mentioned\u00c2\u00a0May would be a busy writing month.\u00c2\u00a0 With 45 minutes to spare, I had 31 short stories based on writing prompts written.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 There are two more half-written stories where I knew they were going to be longer than the time I had or would be best served as novels. I didn&#8217;t write&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=57\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Busy Writing Month Over!<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","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\/57","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=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}