{"id":770,"date":"2009-12-01T16:34:31","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T21:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/?p=770"},"modified":"2009-12-01T16:36:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T21:36:44","slug":"hampered-by-illness-holiday-november-disappoints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/770","title":{"rendered":"Hampered by Illness, Holiday, November Disappoints"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a roaring October<\/a> that seemed like the most prolific month of my life (though it actually trailed September), November was a struggle that made things close again for meeting my self-imposed December 15th deadline for first-draft completion of American Dream On<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Missing a full week because of illness, as well as a half-week due to Thanksgiving, plus spending two weekends at debate tournaments, I managed just 18,004 words (~72 pages) during the month. The good news, of course, is that that’s still 72 pages, which is pretty good for a pretty bad month. Still, you might consider this “blowing my lead” since I had been on pace to coast into the deadline and now have to hustle to complete 13.5 chapters in half of December.<\/p>\n

Last night didn’t hurt any, though, as I wrote 16.5 pages and completed 1.5 of those 13.5 chapters, giving me a fortnight to write 12 chapters. No picnic, but certainly something I can accomplish at roughly October’s pace.<\/p>\n

Here’s a look at how each writing period has gone, if only to reaffirm that this schedule is still working out, even with the hindrances faced in November:
\nNovember 2009: 18,004 words (~72 pages)
\nOctober 2009: 34,533 words (~138 pages)
\nSeptember 2009: 34,811 words (~139 pages)
\nJune 2002-August 2009: 19,083 words (~76 pages)<\/p>\n

So yeah, even a lousy month was competitive with seven full years of writing on the side of day jobs. And while the decline looks precipitous month-to-month, it’s certainly worth noting that my schedule is almost completely clear for the next two weeks, free of any projects that are not the novel. If I need to start writing during daylight hours, having two or even three sessions a day, so be it.<\/p>\n

Also worth noting that this thing is probably going to be over 500 conventional pages when it’s done. Huh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a roaring October that seemed like the most prolific month of my life (though it actually trailed September), November was a struggle that made things close again for meeting my self-imposed December 15th deadline for first-draft completion of American Dream On. Missing a full week because of illness, as well as a half-week due […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,32],"tags":[5,72],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-telling-stories","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-telling-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}