{"id":620,"date":"2006-11-16T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=620"},"modified":"2006-11-16T00:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T05:05:00","slug":"coincidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"Coincidence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty days hath November.  Thirty div 2 is fifteen.  Today is the fifteenth.<\/p>\n<p>50K words in Nanowrimo.  I have 25K.<\/p>\n<p>Some thoughts on the progress thus far:  Actually writing the story takes you places you didn&#8217;t expect, reveals things about the created world which you didn&#8217;t fully realize, and shows you just how long it takes to move from plot point A to plot point B.   Good times.  Aside from an errant scene and my general dissatisfaction with the quality of the prose itself, I&#8217;m relatively satisfied with the book, especially looking at it as a first draft. <\/p>\n<p>The issue is that I haven&#8217;t really gotten to the cool stuff yet.  Everything has been set-up so far.  I have a feeling that if I want this to end up as a viable book, 25,000 will be a lot more like the one-third mark than the one-half.  This makes sense;  50K is barely novel length.<\/p>\n<p>See you in a few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty days hath November. Thirty div 2 is fifteen. Today is the fifteenth. 50K words in Nanowrimo. I have 25K. Some thoughts on the progress thus far: Actually writing the story takes you places you didn&#8217;t expect, reveals things about the created world which you didn&#8217;t fully realize, and shows you just how long it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}