{"id":3844,"date":"2019-12-10T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/?p=3844"},"modified":"2019-12-08T09:27:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T14:27:13","slug":"nano-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/blog\/2019\/12\/10\/nano-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NaNo Update #2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3844 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/blog\/2019\/11\/26\/nanowrireminder\/epic-group-writers_print\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Epic-Group-Writers_Print-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Epic-Group-Writers_Print-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Epic-Group-Writers_Print-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Epic-Group-Writers_Print-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Epic-Group-Writers_Print-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Epic-Group-Writers_Print-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Epic-Group-Writers_Print-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Epic-Group-Writers_Print-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Epic-Group-Writers_Print-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Epic-Group-Writers_Print-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Epic-Group-Writers_Print.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/blog\/2019\/11\/26\/nanowrireminder\/nanosnowconecolortextprint\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/NaNoSnowConeColorTextPrint-233x300.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/NaNoSnowConeColorTextPrint-233x300.png 233w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/NaNoSnowConeColorTextPrint-768x989.png 768w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/NaNoSnowConeColorTextPrint-795x1024.png 795w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/NaNoSnowConeColorTextPrint-250x322.png 250w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/NaNoSnowConeColorTextPrint-450x579.png 450w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/NaNoSnowConeColorTextPrint.png 1535w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/blog\/2019\/11\/26\/nanowrireminder\/snoisle\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/snoisle-300x300.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/snoisle-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/snoisle-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/snoisle-160x160.png 160w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/snoisle-320x320.png 320w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/snoisle.png 500w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/snoisle-250x250.png 250w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/snoisle-450x450.png 450w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/snoisle-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The month of November&#8217;s &#8216;writing with abandon&#8217; is over. Our local events attracted interested attendees, some being the same people participating in multiple events.<\/p>\n<p>Comments I heard over the month:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even thought I didn&#8217;t do NaNo I got in the spirit and wrote more than I usually do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t get going until the middle of the month, but then I felt inspired so I wrote over 50,000 words, That means I won NaNo&#8217;s challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I started but life got in the way so I stopped, but I plan to finish my story at a later time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For me &#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>All in all, it was a challenge worth the challenge. Many of us wrote and breathed words daily. I thought I would possible write 35,000 words but ended up writing 64, 514 words. Some how I\u00a0 just couldn&#8217;t push myself to round that up to 65,000.<\/p>\n<p>True, this draft of the story has tons of red X&#8217;s (my symbol for needing\u00a0 more info or needing to check the validity of my ideas). True, I have gaping holes where all I got down were the basics. True some days were a stretch to write 900 words, but I did trudge on.<\/p>\n<p>Would I do it again? Maybe. But I can&#8217;t see myself ready to write <em>another<\/em> book in 10 months when I&#8217;m not sure of the outcome of this one. <em>Sticks and Stones<\/em> is dependent on lots more research and verification, multiple edits, revising, working with an editor and then deciding <strong>if<\/strong> there is a final step I want to take: <em>(whisper the next word)<\/em> publishing the story.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Many thanks for Sno-Isle libraries (especially the Edmonds branch) and EPIC for sponsoring the NaNo events and to Stephanie Fields, the LM of NaNoSnoCo for providing support and encouragement to Snohomish County writers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,293],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","category-nanowrimo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3844"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5259,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844\/revisions\/5259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}