{"id":14040,"date":"2011-11-01T03:59:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T08:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=14040"},"modified":"2011-11-01T03:59:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T08:59:34","slug":"nanowrimo-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=14040","title":{"rendered":"NaNoWriMo 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/\">National Novel Writing Month<\/a>!  Years ago <a href=\"?p=1449\">I talked about why I thought NaNoWriMo was poorly timed<\/a>.  That still stands.  Having said that, I thought I&#8217;d use the start of NaNoWriMo to announce my plans:<\/p>\n<p>The Autoblography will end this week, on Friday, at entry #40.  (Yes, some of you already guessed that.)  The portion published thus far is almost 60,000 words, which is pretty much a novel in itself.   <em>I stopped working on my novel so I could write a different one.  This is why I can&#8217;t have nice things.<\/em> I wrote the Autoblography in the space of ten weeks.  That&#8217;s a brisk pace, but it&#8217;s about half the speed you&#8217;d need to achieve if you wanted to meet the &#8220;50k words in 4 weeks&#8221; goal of NaNoWriMo.  Crimey. <\/p>\n<p>Once that&#8217;s out of the way, I plan to put my efforts into finishing my book.  <\/p>\n<p>Some people make promises on their blog in order to publicly set goals for themselves. The guilt or danger of public failure drives them.  My creativity doesn&#8217;t work that way, and I can&#8217;t squeeze more work out by making public declarations. So be aware that I&#8217;m simply announcing my intentions. No promise is implied. To put it more succinctly: Skyrim is coming out, and I don&#8217;t get XP for posting stuff for you to read. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s National Novel Writing Month! Years ago I talked about why I thought NaNoWriMo was poorly timed. That still stands. Having said that, I thought I&#8217;d use the start of NaNoWriMo to announce my plans: The Autoblography will end this week, on Friday, at entry #40. (Yes, some of you already guessed that.) The portion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}