{"id":707,"date":"2006-12-01T23:50:07","date_gmt":"2006-12-02T04:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=707"},"modified":"2007-03-02T15:22:14","modified_gmt":"2007-03-02T20:22:14","slug":"no-more-nanowrimo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"No More NaNoWriMo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/\">National Novel Writing Month<\/a> (NaNoWriMo) officially ended yesterday. I had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=674\">signed up<\/a>, and I got nearly 19,000 words written, out of a goal of 50,000 total words. Then work intervened &#8212; an unexpected memorial service, craziness in the office, too much to do generally. I&#8217;d come home, and all I wanted was to sit and do nothing. Writing a novel involved too much mental effort. So I stopped.<\/p>\n<p>My older sister, Jean, had warned me:&#8211; November is a bad month in which to try NaNoWriMo. She did it in July. Maybe I&#8217;ll try again come July&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>This past week, work slowed down enough that I actually had energy to engage in mental effort when I came home. But instead of resuming work on the abandoned novel, I found myself picking up an old book project that I had gotten stuck on about three years ago, and had filed away. I&#8217;m not going to say any more about this project, except to say that I finally seem to be getting somewhere with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) officially ended yesterday. I had signed up, and I got nearly 19,000 words written, out of a goal of 50,000 total words. Then work intervened &#8212; an unexpected memorial service, craziness in the office, too much to do generally. I&#8217;d come home, and all I wanted was to sit and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}