{"id":3213,"date":"2013-11-13T12:34:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T20:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/?p=3213"},"modified":"2013-11-13T12:37:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T20:37:31","slug":"nanowrimo-progress-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/nanowrimo-progress-1\/","title":{"rendered":"How&#8217;s Your #NaNoWriMo novel going? My progress report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/nanowrimo.org\/participants\/emerald33\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cfiles.nanowrimo.org\/nano-2013\/files\/2013\/09\/2013-Participant-Vertical-Banner.png?resize=120%2C240\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Word Count<\/h2>\n<p>As of last night I should have at least 20,000 words written. I&#8217;m hovering around 18,000 right now. In my favor I was out of town at a convention for 4 days and spent one day in the hospital for tests.<\/p>\n<p>But I will make up the deficit by Sunday. I make that promise to myself in public right now. I&#8217;ve let other things get in the way of making my time to write each day. I&#8217;ve been failing on my 500 word minimum commitment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How are you doing? Leave a comment below to offer support whether you&#8217;re on track or falling behind. It&#8217;s not too late to catch up.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s getting in your way of writing? Let&#8217;s work together to find solutions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whether it&#8217;s time issues or plot problems, I&#8217;m here to help if I can.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Storyline<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve changed some of my story around from the original story planning sheets I shared last week. I discussed the characters and their motivations with a few author friends while at a convention in LA last weekend. The unanimous response was no one liked my FBI agent. He was too mean, especially to the other MC. Given that this is a romance as well as a mystery, that&#8217;s a dealbreaker right there.<\/p>\n<p>So I went back to the drawing board with my ideas and got some great new suggestions from other authors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who else is feeling something isn&#8217;t working in your story? Why not leave a comment for me (or others here) to help figure out a solution.<\/strong> It&#8217;s not too late.\u00a0 We still have more than half the month ahead, including 3 more weekends. Many of you Americans have a day off after Thanksgiving. (Write, don&#8217;t shop!)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be doing an official NaNo Repair post, but I&#8217;m happy to help with sticking points now. Just leave a comment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-comments\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/nanowrimo-progress-1\/\" data-numposts=\"5\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word Count As of last night I should have at least 20,000 words written. I&#8217;m hovering around 18,000 right now. In my favor I was out of town at a convention for 4 days and spent one day in the hospital for tests. But I will make up the deficit by Sunday. I make that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":3089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[506,587,374,430,17],"tags":[18,936,689,690],"class_list":["post-3213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-post","category-feature-article","category-nanowrimo","category-smooth-draft","category-writing","tag-nano","tag-nanowrimo","tag-progress-report","tag-word-counts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-wr.jpeg?fit=217%2C232","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pzLgx-PP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3215,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions\/3215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}