{"id":796,"date":"2008-09-21T09:19:39","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T15:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.wordpress.com\/?p=796"},"modified":"2008-09-21T09:19:39","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T15:19:39","slug":"novel-progress-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/novel-progress-week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Novel progress: week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not going to make this a habit because I don’t want to attempt to switch too often between “blog writer” and “fiction writer” hats. It doesn’t hurt, but it kills my motivation.<\/p>\n

But I had to mark this occasion. Yesterday, I hit 4,300 words, which is just 50 words over my first week goal. It was slow going at first, but I punched out a ton of words Thursday and Friday evenings, and managed to make my goal this first week. I’m rewarding myself at 10,000 words by purchasing Mega Man 9<\/a> off the WiiWare channel. But I’ll likely hold the game hostage from myself until after I finish the novel. We’ll see how that goes.<\/p>\n

I’ve also finished the first two chapters of the novel. So far, I’m really happy with what I’ve created so far. I can see some spots already that I want to polish up, but I’m forcing myself to wait until after it’s all written to go back and edit.<\/p>\n

Only fifteen weeks to go. Fifteen weeks which include holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, and my birthday. Yikes.<\/p>\n

I’ve moved my novel progress information to my new novel page<\/a>. You can look it up there. The chart will be updated there, as it was in the previous post before.<\/p>\n

Okay. Today includes a birthday party for my son, but then this evening it’s back to writing. Another week, another 4,250 word goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not going to make this a habit because I don’t want to attempt to switch too often between “blog writer” and “fiction writer” hats. It doesn’t hurt, but it kills my motivation. But I had to mark this occasion. Yesterday, I hit 4,300 words, which is just 50 words over my first week goal. […]<\/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":[4,116,524],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-novel","tag-science-fiction","tag-wip","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","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=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}