{"id":1678,"date":"2010-08-11T10:08:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T22:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2011-12-31T09:37:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T20:37:58","slug":"that-writing-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1678","title":{"rendered":"that writing thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So in the race of <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1576\">novel vs. baby<\/a>, I&#8217;d say baby has a slight lead at present. I&#8217;m 30,000 words in but have had to slow down and go carefully so I don&#8217;t miss a corner and run completely off the road. Upside is, I know where I&#8217;m going (as much as I&#8217;ve ever known where I&#8217;m going in this writing thing) and the situation keeps giving me more to write about.<\/p>\n<p>There are speed bumps too &#8211; where I start thinking too much about what&#8217;s going on subtextually or philosophically. I have a bad habit of just dragging that stuff up into text. (I don&#8217;t know that it really is a bad habit, exactly; it feels like a reaction against bad\/overinflated &#8220;literary&#8221; style. But it isn&#8217;t always an appropriate for what I&#8217;m trying to do, this being a case in point.)<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately I&#8217;m just trying to write some characters I care about facing difficult situations. If I get that right, then i have to trust that everything else will fall into place around it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good stuff, this writing thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So in the race of novel vs. baby, I&#8217;d say baby has a slight lead at present. I&#8217;m 30,000 words in but have had to slow down and go carefully so I don&#8217;t miss a corner and run completely off the road. Upside is, I know where I&#8217;m going (as much as I&#8217;ve ever known &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1678\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">that writing thing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[48,181],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-day-one","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-r4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2841,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/2841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}