{"id":787,"date":"2008-09-14T20:34:38","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T02:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.wordpress.com\/?p=787"},"modified":"2008-09-14T20:34:38","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T02:34:38","slug":"track-the-progress-of-my-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/track-the-progress-of-my-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Track the progress of my novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The outline is complete. I&#8217;ve now bolted down the first words in my second attempt at writing a novel (first attempt was for <a href=\"http:\/\/nerdflood.com\/category\/nanowrimo\/\">NaNoWriMo<\/a>, and as far as I&#8217;m concerned, doesn&#8217;t actually count).<\/p>\n<p>So now, I need to be held accountable for actually getting this sorry scrap-heap of nonsense into an actual, honest-to-goodness palatable work of fiction. And you can help! Or just sit there on the sidelines and watch as I go down in an all too-unremarkable blaze of pain and suffering.<\/p>\n<p>If it worked correctly, there should be a chart embedded below. My goal is to write approximately 68-70K words in 16 weeks (roughly a full novel by the end of the year). This puts me at a weekly goal of about 4,250 words. I will update my count daily, and as each week passes, I hope to keep the blue line (my word count) at least marginally above the red line (my weekly goal). Fun, right? Yeah, that&#8217;s what I thought.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>Chart moved to <a href=\"http:\/\/nerdflood.com\/novel\">novel page<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>If at the end of any week (for reference, my weeks are measured as Sunday through Saturday) I&#8217;m not at my goal for the week, shoot me an email (in the sidebar on the right), or leave a comment telling me to get off my sorry ass and get to writing. I swear I won&#8217;t get mad. Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>See you in December!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The outline is complete. I&#8217;ve now bolted down the first words in my second attempt at writing a novel (first attempt was for NaNoWriMo, and as far as I&#8217;m concerned, doesn&#8217;t actually count). So now, I need to be held accountable for actually getting this sorry scrap-heap of nonsense into an actual, honest-to-goodness palatable work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[244],"tags":[322,4,116],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-blogging","tag-novel","tag-science-fiction","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}