{"id":1593,"date":"2016-01-24T16:25:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T21:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2016-01-24T16:25:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T21:25:28","slug":"writing-slow-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1593","title":{"rendered":"(writing) Slow progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goal-crushed.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1468\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1468 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goal-crushed.jpg\" alt=\"goal crushed\" width=\"236\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goal-crushed.jpg 236w, https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goal-crushed-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0I don&#8217;t write fast any more. I think it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m more of the planner, and I don&#8217;t like rewrites, so I want things to be perfect (or as perfect as they can be in a first draft). But I&#8217;ve discovered that if I head to a coffee shop, or my studio, I seem to get more done lately. Which is why I love that I have a group of writers\/artists that are willing to get together with me every Sunday at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gibsonsbookstore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gibson&#8217;s Bookstore in Concord<\/a>\u00a0and write. If you&#8217;re in the area and want to join us, feel free. I get so much done.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Like today. I got 4454 words written in about 5 hours, which is excellent for me. Also, Gibson&#8217;s has an amazing coffee\/tea bar, and the baristas are the best. I wish I could work here every day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m making progress on\u00a0<em>Winter&#8217;s Secrets<\/em>, and it WILL be launched at Balticon. In paperback and ebook. I&#8217;m also starting to make the outline for Advent #6 (wow, I can&#8217;t believe this will be the 6th year of this!) and the first full season of Pendragon. And I have to finish\u00a0<em>Resonant Frequencies.<\/em> There&#8217;s so much to do, and only a finite amount of time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m doing it. This year is my year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0I don&#8217;t write fast any more. I think it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m more of the planner, and I don&#8217;t like rewrites, so I want things to be perfect (or as perfect as they can be in a first draft). But I&#8217;ve discovered that if I head to a coffee shop, or my studio, I seem to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1593\">>>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23],"tags":[61,67],"class_list":["post-1593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advent","category-goals","tag-advent","tag-goals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}