{"id":3363,"date":"2016-11-06T00:09:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T04:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2016-11-06T00:09:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T04:09:49","slug":"almost-caught-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/2016\/11\/06\/almost-caught-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost caught up."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Current word count is<strong> 7877<\/strong>. Not quite the 8333 listed for day 5, but nearly caught up. I have a bit over 2000 to reach 10K, which is Sunday&#8217;s goal.<\/p>\n<p>Had a really well-attended write-in at a coffee house in Simpsonville. Thirteen people (other than myself) were there. One drawback: we couldn&#8217;t get online. This isn&#8217;t normally a problem but when you&#8217;re supposed to be having a virtual write-in for every physical one, you&#8217;re not sure just who you&#8217;re disappointing. I did get into the zone, even if my spelling and other writerly\u00a0mechanics suffered mightily for it. When I have some time, I need to look into the physiology and anatomy of various reptiles (and a few amphibians). My fire drakes are based largely on our reptiles, along with some of the traditional dragon, wyvern, and wurm\u00a0body types, on a world where no reptiles have existed up until now. I think this is going to be the most difficult of my three books simply because I&#8217;m throwing a lot more science and pseudo-science into it.<\/p>\n<p>Hm. I&#8217;ll either talk about my newest character, Lucanthea, or I&#8217;ll talk about some of the social structures I&#8217;ve set up in this world.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I got the nicest NaNo mail from one of my Wrimos thanking me for my recent regional pep talk! Gave me the warm fuzzies, so it did!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current word count is 7877. Not quite the 8333 listed for day 5, but nearly caught up. I have a bit over 2000 to reach 10K, which is Sunday&#8217;s goal. Had a really well-attended write-in at a coffee house in Simpsonville. Thirteen people (other than myself) were there. One drawback: we couldn&#8217;t get online. This isn&#8217;t normally a problem but when you&#8217;re supposed to be having a virtual write-in for every physical one, you&#8217;re not sure just who you&#8217;re disappointing&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/2016\/11\/06\/almost-caught-up\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[51,52,33],"tags":[58,78,114,113,85,89,63,126,70,115,72],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanowrimo","category-original-fiction","category-writing","tag-amwriting","tag-feedback","tag-ml","tag-municipal-liaison","tag-nanowrimo-2","tag-original-work","tag-reaching-my-goal","tag-story-rebels-of-the-hex","tag-word-count","tag-write-ins","tag-writing-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8AOo6-Sf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}