{"id":585,"date":"2010-10-05T13:14:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T20:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=585"},"modified":"2010-10-05T13:16:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T20:16:36","slug":"write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"Who else wants to write?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/nanowrimo_participant_01_120x901.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-590\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 0px 5px;\" title=\"nanowrimo_participant_01_120x90\" src=\"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/nanowrimo_participant_01_120x901.png\" alt=\"NaNoWriMo\" width=\"120\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>Last year, I entered the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) competition for the first time.\u00a0 I think I&#8217;ve mentioned this a time or two.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to enter again this year and get a start on my third novel.\u00a0 Is anyone else thinking of entering?\u00a0 If so, maybe we can encourage each other as we go along.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re worried about not being able to do this, you owe it to yourself to read\u00a0<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/No-Plot-Problem-Low-Stress-High-Velocity\/dp\/0811845052%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAIK63KDWA367RLAVA%26tag%3Dinfmomnet-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0811845052\">No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days<\/a><\/em> by Chris Baty, which will get you past the fear of writing and keep you going all month long.\u00a0 It&#8217;s designed specifically for NaNoWriMo participants.\u00a0 You&#8217;re not competing with other writers, only with yourself, and nobody will see the finished work unless you want them to.\u00a0 What you write doesn&#8217;t have to be perfect&#8211;you just have to accept the deadline and keep moving toward your goal.<\/p>\n<p>I got two novels for the effort of one, last year, because being able to finish 50,000+ words in less than a month encouraged me to finish my first novel after more than 20 years.\u00a0 If I can do it, anyone can.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I entered the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) competition for the first time.\u00a0 I think I&#8217;ve mentioned this a time or two.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to enter again this year and get a start on my third novel.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=585\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[71,95],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}