{"id":642,"date":"2013-10-07T02:43:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T06:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/?p=642"},"modified":"2013-10-07T02:43:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T06:43:59","slug":"nanowrimo-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/2013\/10\/nanowrimo-prep\/","title":{"rendered":"NaNoWriMo prep"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m planning to write a novel. I don’t know what about, yet!<\/p>\n

“But Wyatt,” you say, “you may lack the ability to write a novel!”<\/p>\n

Indeed, I may. So I’m doing a lot of preparation. My prep work follows a pattern similar to that laid out in the 100 pushup training regime. For five days, I wrote a 250 word short story each day. I have just written my second 500 word story, and will continue for 3 more days. Then 1000 words for five days. Then I’ll try a 5,000 word story in 3 days. I’ll do that twice. Then I’ll do 10,000 words in 5 days over and over until it’s November.<\/p>\n

This should get me used to writing about 2,000 words of slightly edited prose per day, which is what’s required to hit 50,000 words across the month of November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m planning to write a novel. I don’t know what about, yet! “But Wyatt,” you say, “you may lack the ability to write a novel!” Indeed, I may. So I’m doing a lot of preparation. My prep work follows a pattern similar to that laid out in the 100 pushup training regime. For five days, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}