{"id":1529,"date":"2008-10-29T14:06:38","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T19:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2008-10-29T14:06:38","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T19:06:38","slug":"rounding-the-bend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/rounding-the-bend\/","title":{"rendered":"Rounding the Bend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Less than three days before NaNo kicks off.\u00a0 I&#8217;m trying a new genre and will be operating mostly without internet while writing for the first time.\u00a0 In theory, this should be a good thing, right?\u00a0 Less distraction.<em> <\/em>But I&#8217;ll have to &#8220;make stuff up&#8221; more often.\u00a0 I won&#8217;t have that ready source of research for a quick answer to a question.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure it will work fine.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m going to write in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacejock.com\/yWriter4.html\" target=\"_blank\">yWriter<\/a> this year.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve done some preliminary work, and like what I&#8217;ve gotten so far.\u00a0 My working title is Parallels, and I&#8217;m learning toward science fiction.\u00a0 I think it will wind up as a spoof on Global Warming, but words can take interesting turns.\u00a0 I&#8217;m also trying to implement some of the techniques and principles I&#8217;m learning in the How to Think Sideways course.\u00a0 Even though I have access through Week 16 and have read through Week 15 in the course, I&#8217;m effectively working on Week 7.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to getting started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than three days before NaNo kicks off.\u00a0 I&#8217;m trying a new genre and will be operating mostly without internet while writing for the first time.\u00a0 In theory, this should be a good thing, right?\u00a0 Less distraction. But I&#8217;ll have to &#8220;make stuff up&#8221; more often.\u00a0 I won&#8217;t have that <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/rounding-the-bend\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &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_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":[61,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parallels","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}