{"id":1357,"date":"2006-11-28T23:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T07:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/11\/28\/im-a-winner\/"},"modified":"2006-11-28T23:27:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T07:27:00","slug":"im-a-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/11\/28\/im-a-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a winner!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">NaNoWriMo<\/span> winner, anyway.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/\">National Novel Writing Month<\/a> doesn&#8217;t end for another two days, but I&#8217;m done.  I passed the requisite 50,000-word mark on Saturday, and I needed just a little more time to figure out how to properly end my story.<\/p>\n<p><strike>If you&#8217;d like to check out the crappy first draft, here it is:<\/strike> <b><i>Waypoint Kangaroo<\/i><\/b>, a robust tale of interplanetary intrigue in which seafood makes a brief appearance.<\/p>\n<p>The funny thing is, I didn&#8217;t understand until last week what I was actually writing <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">about<\/span>.  As accomplished TV writer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janeespenson.com\/archives\/00000198.php\">Jane Espenson<\/a> points out, any script can be broken down into two loglines (brief descriptions): &#8220;what it&#8217;s about&#8221; and &#8220;what it&#8217;s REALLY about.&#8221;  The first one tells you the literal events that take place in the story.  The second tells you the <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">reason<\/span> for writing that particular story.<\/p>\n<p>In my case, the literal events are an obvious allegory for 9\/11, and writing this story was very therapeutic.  The <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">reason<\/span> for writing this story, however, is less temporal; it&#8217;s about family and finding your place in the world.  The second draft should reflect that better.<\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A NaNoWriMo winner, anyway. National Novel Writing Month doesn&#8217;t end for another two days, but I&#8217;m done. I passed the requisite 50,000-word mark on Saturday, and I needed just a little more time to figure out how to properly end&#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-1357","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\/1357","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=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}