{"id":795,"date":"2009-12-09T05:32:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T10:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/?p=795"},"modified":"2009-12-09T05:33:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T10:33:24","slug":"sprinting-for-the-finish-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/795","title":{"rendered":"Sprinting for the Finish Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technically, December just became the most verbose written month of my life.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s been here for eight and a half days.<\/p>\n<p>I have contributed over 35,000 words (~140 pages) to the novel in the last eight and a half days.  This is technical, because a decent chunk of that (~9,000 words) was pre-written in one form or another.  So the pace is a little misleading, though still blistering.  I have been able to process very little other than <i>American Dream On<\/i> this month.<\/p>\n<p>I have a whopping two chapters to go.  The total piece is over 140,000 words and looks like it will be shy of 150,000 in final form.  Which is good, because I&#8217;m totally not ready to edit a 600 page book.  580 pages should be much more manageable.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a little loopy at this point.  But I&#8217;ve written 6,500 words in the last 24 hours alone, so I&#8217;m going to let myself slide.  Slide into bed.  And then wake up and eat, sleep, and breathe more novel.<\/p>\n<p>You haven&#8217;t seen euphoria till you&#8217;ve seen a finished novel from a manic depressive.  Sometime this week, watch out people.<\/p>\n<p>And it looks like my streak of being ahead of deadlines will be intact, unless it somehow takes me 5.5 days to finish two chapters after I&#8217;ve knocked out 11.5 chapters in 8.5 days (1.35 chapters\/day).  Not that I&#8217;m trying to tempt fate or anything.  But this would say I should be done this time Friday morning and that would be just grand by me.<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t tell, I really need to sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technically, December just became the most verbose written month of my life. And it&#8217;s been here for eight and a half days. I have contributed over 35,000 words (~140 pages) to the novel in the last eight and a half days. This is technical, because a decent chunk of that (~9,000 words) was pre-written in [&hellip;]<\/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-795","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\/795","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=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}