{"id":1013,"date":"2011-08-27T20:36:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T00:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2011-08-27T20:36:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T00:36:48","slug":"more-novel-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1013","title":{"rendered":"More novel progress&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My novel is now at 16K words.  As you might notice, I added a little wordcount widget on the sidebar.  The novel will probably be longer than 50K in the end, but hopefully I won&#8217;t let it go out of control, as I have in the past, where my wordcount surpassed 50K and the story had still hardly begun.  That&#8217;s just awful pacing.  But so far I think this story is working better.  And when it&#8217;s past 50K, it will at least be official novel length (by SFWA standards).<\/p>\n<p>So far this bad hurricane Irene we were supposed to get has been nothing but constant rain.  No super-strong winds or long power outages.  But I guess the night is still young, the hurricane is still moving, and there&#8217;s still a chance for more damage.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m spending the night continuing to work on Animation Mentor homework before it&#8217;s due tomorrow&#8230; though maybe I&#8217;ll take a break at some point for a Netflix movie.  I just hope the power doesn&#8217;t go out in the wee morning hours.  That would stink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My novel is now at 16K words. As you might notice, I added a little wordcount widget on the sidebar. The novel will probably be longer than 50K in the end, but hopefully I won&#8217;t let it go out of control, as I have in the past, where my wordcount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-gl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}