{"id":1108,"date":"2008-11-20T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/11\/20\/lowered-expectations\/"},"modified":"2008-11-20T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T06:10:00","slug":"lowered-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/11\/20\/lowered-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowered Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snout.org\/hotsheet\/2008\/11\/nanowrimo-has-begun.html\">started<\/a> this year&#8217;s NaNoWriMo with the goal of reaching 100,000 words, but with ten days left and a current total of 42,717 words, that&#8217;s probably not going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve revised my goal down to <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">75,000 words<\/span>, which is still 15,000 more than my previous high score of roughly 60,000 and will be a non-trivial challenge.  All the weekends this month have been useless for writing, but I&#8217;ve still got ten days, and 4,000 words a day is totally doable.  I just need to sort out the story in my head.  Typing is easy.  Plotting is hard.<\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started this year&#8217;s NaNoWriMo with the goal of reaching 100,000 words, but with ten days left and a current total of 42,717 words, that&#8217;s probably not going to happen. So I&#8217;ve revised my goal down to 75,000 words, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}