{"id":620,"date":"2008-12-03T01:13:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T06:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=620"},"modified":"2008-12-02T23:16:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T04:16:32","slug":"nanowrimo-progress-weeks-three-and-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"NaNoWriMo Progress &#8211; Weeks Three and Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Week Three<\/strong> &#8211; Dated 11\/19\/08<\/p>\n<p>I learned that it is near impossible to write while at work.\u00c2\u00a0 Granted, it&#8217;s something I knew already but it was confirmed yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0 We have some slow periods but the pace always seems to pick up in November.\u00c2\u00a0 For the most part I have tried to write each day even if I do not meet my daily word count goal.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Week Four<\/strong> &#8211; Dated 11\/30\/08<\/p>\n<p>Today was really my most painful day.\u00c2\u00a0 I think all month long I&#8217;ve taken a total of 3 days off from writing but I have not met my daily word count goal every day.\u00c2\u00a0 And it bit me in the behind.\u00c2\u00a0 At the beginning of today my total word count was 41,745.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of the ways to prep for NaNoWriMo is to have a back-up of your novel.\u00c2\u00a0 I think it needs to be amended to have a recent back-up of your novel available.\u00c2\u00a0 I kept saving my novel to my USB drive throughout the day when I received an error message from Word that it could no\u00c2\u00a0longer find the file.\u00c2\u00a0 With only 4,000 words left to write I tried to keep it together while I was panicking.\u00c2\u00a0 My back-up was from 10 days prior and my word count was almost 30K.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ten years of Help Desk work paid off!\u00c2\u00a0 I was able to find a temporary file from fifteen minutes earlier that was only missing a few hundred words.\u00c2\u00a0 To be honest, I felt a little bit on tilt but I kept on writing.\u00c2\u00a0 With an hour and five minutes left before midnight I crossed the finish line with over 50,000 words and all my plot lines tied up.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/you_won.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-636\" title=\"you_won\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/you_won-242x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/you_won-242x300.png 242w, http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/you_won.png 303w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week Three &#8211; Dated 11\/19\/08 I learned that it is near impossible to write while at work.\u00c2\u00a0 Granted, it&#8217;s something I knew already but it was confirmed yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0 We have some slow periods but the pace always seems to pick up in November.\u00c2\u00a0 For the most part I have tried to write each day even&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=620\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NaNoWriMo Progress &#8211; Weeks Three and Four<\/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-620","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\/620","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=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}