{"id":363,"date":"2011-10-30T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/2011\/10\/30\/weekly-writing-check-in-countdown-to-productivity\/"},"modified":"2011-10-30T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T16:21:00","slug":"weekly-writing-check-in-countdown-to-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/2011\/10\/30\/weekly-writing-check-in-countdown-to-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Writing Check-In: Countdown to Productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-rDRPybwfX9c\/Tq1y3DkgkXI\/AAAAAAAAARo\/QF3odIzWSUc\/s1600\/nanowrimo.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-rDRPybwfX9c\/Tq1y3DkgkXI\/AAAAAAAAARo\/QF3odIzWSUc\/s320\/nanowrimo.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Well I dunno about you folks, but I&#8217;m ready for Nanowrimo. I mean by this time next week I&#8217;ll be whining about how I ~dun wanna~ and ~dun have time~ but you know, I&#8217;ll get it done and I&#8217;ll feel pretty awesome by the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>That said, Nanowrimo finally has their buddy system up working again, so you should add me! My profile is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/en\/participants\/hildred\">here<\/a>. Looking forward to seeing you over at the Nano side!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent the past couple of days eating dinner in ~restaurants~ and getting a little outlining done for Nano, so I&#8217;m not, you know, freaking out more about what scene to do next instead of writing. I&#8217;m pretty happy with where it&#8217;s going so far in terms of plot and character development and am pretty happy that I&#8217;m not as worried as I was at this point last week. I was kinda thrown for a loop, however, when I went over a scene and realized that&#8230;two of my characters are going to interact in a way that I was NOT expecting to happen until the next book in the series. I tried everything I could to make them, well, not do that little nasty (it&#8217;s pretty tame, okay. OKAY?) and still have it be believable, but yeah, I couldn&#8217;t come up with a way. I finally just accepted that, hey, my characters wanna make out a little. It&#8217;s cool. Gonna totally SCREW UP their interactions for the rest of the novel, but my job as author is kinda to diffuse that, now isn&#8217;t it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, I&#8217;m wrapping up October some last minute editing. Word and I are currently having a great grammar check disagreement: it says Chapter 6 of Rebirth is 5 percent passive, and I&#8217;m saying it&#8217;s 100 percent bullshit. I don&#8217;t even know where it&#8217;s getting these supposed passive sentences from, except from maybe dialogue and idc about that. <\/p>\n<p>skfjdkjlkfa I am ready to write on the Mother Ship here. And that is always a good feeling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I dunno about you folks, but I&#8217;m ready for Nanowrimo. I mean by this time next week I&#8217;ll be whining about how I ~dun wanna~ and ~dun have time~ but you know, I&#8217;ll get it done and I&#8217;ll feel pretty awesome by the end of the month. That said, Nanowrimo finally has their buddy&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[170,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanowrimo","category-weekly-writing-check-in"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRtqI-5R","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}