{"id":3572,"date":"2017-11-29T00:35:36","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T05:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tikatu.com\/?p=3572"},"modified":"2017-11-29T00:35:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T05:35:36","slug":"two-more-days-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/2017\/11\/29\/two-more-days-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Two more days to go!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And only one more write-in. I&#8217;m up to date on my word count (as of 11\/28) and the story is sorta starting to peter out. Not that it&#8217;s finished, I think, but my strongest scenes are written, for the most part. A problem with pantsing a story instead of planning it out. I need to start copying it to a text file for validation purposes so I know exactly how many words I have. I also want to run spell-check for the more egregious of my typos. It&#8217;s not turning out so much to be an action-adventure story so much as a story of family, both by marriage\/birth and by choice. There&#8217;s still a load of description to put in, especially when dealing with what people are doing as they speak. I&#8217;ve gotten worse at that over the years; this is a chance to consciously think about what they&#8217;re doing&#8211;use my visual take on the whole thing to make things clear to the reader.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I&#8217;ve found has worked really well is using the\u00a020\/10 method espoused by the website and book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unfuckyourhabitat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unfuckyourhabitat<\/a>\u00a0(pardon the language but that <em>is<\/em> the name of the site). They suggest it for cleaning; I&#8217;ve adapted it for writing. During the day, I&#8217;ll hop into our NaNoChat room and queue up what&#8217;s called a chain war. Timmy the word war mech (the chat&#8217;s weird AI) will set a 20-minute timer for me and space it automatically with 10-minute breaks. I type as fast as I can in those 20 minutes and after three or four of them, I have my daily word count. At actual write-ins, I&#8217;ll specify 15 minutes instead of 20; five of those takes around an hour and a half, which is a great length of time. It may be something I have to do after NaNoWriMo ends.<\/p>\n<p>On the physical side, I&#8217;m pretty much confined to a wheelchair until after the New Year. Turns out my Lisfranc injury is an old one and is stable. Good news on that front. However, x-rays taken today at my orthopedist&#8217;s office shows I have not three but <em>four<\/em> broken toes. They&#8217;re developing new bone\u00a0but will have to do a whole lot more healing before I&#8217;m back to driving and walking.<\/p>\n<p>So, two more days to go and I&#8217;m on track to win!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And only one more write-in. I&#8217;m up to date on my word count (as of 11\/28) and the story is sorta starting to peter out. Not that it&#8217;s finished, I think, but my strongest scenes are written, for the most part. A problem with pantsing a story instead of planning it out. I need to start copying it to a text file for validation purposes so I know exactly how many words I have. I also want to run spell-check&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/2017\/11\/29\/two-more-days-to-go\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[11,51,52,33],"tags":[58,79,85,89,63,139,141,70,115,72],"class_list":["post-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthwellness","category-nanowrimo","category-original-fiction","category-writing","tag-amwriting","tag-finish-the-job","tag-nanowrimo-2","tag-original-work","tag-reaching-my-goal","tag-story-superhuman-resources","tag-unfuckyourhabitat","tag-word-count","tag-write-ins","tag-writing-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8AOo6-VC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}