{"id":528,"date":"2011-07-27T00:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T07:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2011\/07\/27\/write-a-thon-2011-day-31-over-the-hill\/"},"modified":"2011-07-27T00:19:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T07:19:00","slug":"write-a-thon-2011-day-31-over-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2011\/07\/27\/write-a-thon-2011-day-31-over-the-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Write-a-Thon 2011, Day 31: over the hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(LiveJournal is still down.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2011\/07\/26\/livejournal_outage\/\">WTF<\/a>?)<\/p>\n<p><i>New Words:<\/i> <b>991<\/b><br \/><i>Current Total:<\/i> 28,246 words<br \/><i>Goal:<\/i> 43,008 words in 42 days<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/picometer.writertopia.com\/words=28246&amp;target=43008\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Breakdown: +509 on the novel breakdown, +482 on notes for this week&#8217;s <i>512<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now week 5 of the write-a-thon, and apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/clarionfoundation.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/24\/2011-write-a-thon-week-5\/\">I&#8217;m one of the top ten fundraisers<\/a>.  Who knew?  But I&#8217;m still at less than 60% of my stated goal (<a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/clarion2011\">$512<\/a>), so if you haven&#8217;t donated yet, please consider doing so&#8211;<i>soon!<\/i><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theclarionfoundation.org\/writeathon\/wrtn-writerpage.php?writerID=6880\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/stories\/wrtn-writergrn-160x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Donate now!\" title=\"Donate now!\" \/><\/a><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theclarionfoundation.org\/writeathon\/wrtn-writerpage.php?writerID=6880\">http:\/\/www.theclarionfoundation.org\/writeathon\/wrtn-writerpage.php?writerID=6880<\/a><\/small><\/div>\n<p>In other news, I teamed up with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/thedoubleclicks\/status\/96078089876025344\">Angela<\/a> and friends for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PortlandGeekTrivia\">Geek Trivia<\/a>, and we didn&#8217;t suck.  I contributed to both rounds with my obscure knowledge of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/knight-rider.wikia.com\/wiki\/Garthe_Knight\">Knight<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/knight-rider.wikia.com\/wiki\/K.A.R.R.\">Rider<\/a><\/i> and <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chang_%28Star_Trek%29\">Star Trek VI<\/a><\/i>, respectively.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It&#8217;s a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write.&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/guides\/2007\/officelife\/30009\/index2.html\">Paul Rudnick<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"CKL\" title=\"CKL\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(LiveJournal is still down. WTF?) New Words: 991Current Total: 28,246 wordsGoal: 43,008 words in 42 days Breakdown: +509 on the novel breakdown, +482 on notes for this week&#8217;s 512. It&#8217;s now week 5 of the write-a-thon, and apparently I&#8217;m one&#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":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writeathon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","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=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}