{"id":338,"date":"2012-11-09T11:59:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T16:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2012-11-09T11:59:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T16:59:21","slug":"nanowrimo-word-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"NaNoWriMo: Word Counts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, that shadow that chooses to loom over some of us and tailgate behind the rest. Sadly, just over a week into my writing, I&#8217;m very much under the shadow. I should be at around 12,000 words, but I have only got about half of that. Now, I suppose I could sit here and poke my word count in an attempt to make it more appealing or I could get discouraged and chuck the whole thing out the window.<\/p>\n<p>Thing is, I told myself (late as it was) that I was going to do this. I was going to write this month, school or&#8230; school, and I am pretty well determined not to back out on myself. \u00c2\u00a0I have done too many times in the past. There are files upon files of stories I have begun work on, but then discarded at some point or another and left to accumulate dust on my\u00c2\u00a0hard-drive.<\/p>\n<p>This month, I am determined not to let more dust settle. I have pulled out the feather duster along with my pen, it is cleaning month!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next week&#8217;s Wednesday post:\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Spacebattles<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, that shadow that chooses to loom over some of us and tailgate behind the rest. Sadly, just over a week into my writing, I&#8217;m very much under the shadow. I should be at around 12,000 words, but I have only got about half of that. Now, I suppose I could sit here and poke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanowrimo","category-writing-in-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}