{"id":2230,"date":"2009-12-03T11:46:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T17:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2009-12-03T12:25:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T18:25:05","slug":"the-hardest-thing-following-nanowrimo-is-to-keep-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/the-hardest-thing-following-nanowrimo-is-to-keep-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"The hardest thing, following NaNoWriMo, is to keep writing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s also, obviously, the most important thing. Especially if you&#8217;re not done with your story, as I am (err&#8230; not).<\/p>\n<p>I suppose that the problem arises from that end-of-the-month, oh-my-god-it&#8217;s-over-lets-celebrate release:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You take a day off.<\/li>\n<li>The day after that, a new game release comes out.<\/li>\n<li>The day after that, you need to hit the gym to work off some Thanksgiving goodness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and whenever you think about the WIP, your mind automatically associates it with the binge-writing you sometimes had to do during November. \u00a0That&#8217;s not an association that makes you want to sit back down.<\/p>\n<p>I approach this downshift by easing into what is (for me) a more sustainable, remember-I-have-a-day-job-that-is-also-writing pattern: one solid scene a day, or a couple pages, whichever&#8217;s less.<\/p>\n<p>If I write more than that, fine; it&#8217;s the pattern I&#8217;m after, not the picture. I owe it to myself &#8212; in part because I really think this Adrift thing has some serious legs.<\/p>\n<p>How about you guys? I wanna hear about what you&#8217;re working on.<\/p>\n<p>Discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s also, obviously, the most important thing. Especially if you&#8217;re not done with your story, as I am (err&#8230; not). I suppose that the problem arises from that end-of-the-month, oh-my-god-it&#8217;s-over-lets-celebrate release: You take a day off. The day after that, a new game release comes out. The day after that, you need to hit the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/the-hardest-thing-following-nanowrimo-is-to-keep-writing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The hardest thing, following NaNoWriMo, is to keep writing.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,42],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-2230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","category-writing","tag-adrift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2234,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions\/2234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}