{"id":4478,"date":"2008-10-15T23:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4478"},"modified":"2021-03-12T10:06:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T15:06:55","slug":"weekly-word-count-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4478","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Word Count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever written, and then ended up with less words than when you started?<\/p>\n<p>I used to be so good at math.<\/p>\n<p>I took last week and this week&#8217;s writing (Yay for writing on break!) and typed them into the Chapter 6 file.  I&#8217;m back on the horse, so to speak, when it comes to <u>The Glass Crown<\/u>.  I have reminders set for me &#8211; this story is not about the Guardians, damnit &#8211; and guidelines that the characters have set for me, and an outline that will constantly need to be revised as I write each chapter.  The outline, which has existed since the NaNoWriMo in which I started the sequel, is still dead on for where I want to take the story.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of NaNoWriMo (segue powers, activate!), I&#8217;m debating trying it again this year.  I have a new novel to start, but it would put another month-long pause on <u>The Glass Crown<\/u>.  Should I do it?<\/p>\n<p><u>The Glass Crown<\/u><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/picometer.writertopia.com\/words=26777&amp;target=110000\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever written, and then ended up with less words than when you started? I used to be so good at math. I took last week and this week&#8217;s writing (Yay for writing on break!) and typed them into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4478\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[34,15],"class_list":["post-4478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-livejournal","tag-writery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-1ae","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7701,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478\/revisions\/7701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}