{"id":532,"date":"2005-11-02T05:32:25","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T10:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=532"},"modified":"2005-11-02T05:32:25","modified_gmt":"2005-11-02T10:32:25","slug":"a-novel-in-30-days-or-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2005\/11\/02\/a-novel-in-30-days-or-less\/","title":{"rendered":"A Novel in 30 Days or Less!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is National Novel Writing Month.<br \/>\nOr, if you&#8217;re one of the cool kids, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/\">NaNoWriMo<\/a>.  The idea, in a nutshell, is to write a book in thirty days or less.  Or finish that monster that you&#8217;ve always meant to get around to again.  Either way, the goal is a completed novel by the end of the month.  Frankly, it seems impossible to me, but the guy who puts this on every year is also the author of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=fantasistnet%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%253fASIN=0811845052%2526tag=fantasistnet%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\/o\/ASIN\/0811845052%25253FSubscriptionId=0EMV44A9A5YT1RVDGZ82\" title=\"View product details at Amazon\">No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days<\/a>, so, maybe, just maybe it&#8217;s possible to accomlish.<br \/>\nWell, I won&#8217;t find out this year because I&#8217;m just in the wrong place to do that, but I may just get the book and read it so I&#8217;m ready for next year.<br \/>\nIn any case, if you&#8217;re feeling up to it, it&#8217;s still not too late for you to start.  You are a little behind, but you can still make it up.  Hit the website and start writing!  (And, yes, I wrote about this yesterday at my other blog, Diary of a Network Geek.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is National Novel Writing Month. Or, if you&#8217;re one of the cool kids, NaNoWriMo. The idea, in a nutshell, is to write a book in thirty days or less. Or finish that monster that you&#8217;ve always meant to get around to again. Either way, the goal is a completed novel by the end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,37,4,16,27,35,14,24,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-exercises","category-experimental","category-fiction-and-its-kin","category-fun","category-ideas-and-suggestions","category-news-and-current-events","category-things-to-read","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}