{"id":573,"date":"2011-11-03T22:16:41","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T02:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=573"},"modified":"2011-11-03T22:16:41","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T02:16:41","slug":"metricsnanowriting-day-3-of-nanowrimo-and-im-still-pacing-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":"(metrics\/nano\/writing) Day 3 of NaNoWriMo and I&#8217;m still pacing myself!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Current NaNo wordcount: 5045<br \/>\nTo be on Target: 5001<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not much of a cushion, but the fact that I&#8217;ve written 5k in the last three days is amazing to me, so I&#8217;ll enjoy it.  I need to catch up a bit more with my outline, so I might not get a bunch done tomorrow, but we&#8217;ll see.  I&#8217;m being mean to Molly &#8211; just slammed her up against her door.  Did I mention this book is a little darker than last year&#8217;s?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI found a great outlining post while I was wandering through the NaNo boards before NaNo started, and I wanted to share it. It has really helped me work out some things with this book, and I can&#8217;t wait to use it for some of my other ones.  Especially the Sapph books.  Who am I kidding?  All my books. :p<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.how-to-write-a-book-now.com\/plot-outline.html>This post and the post after it<\/a> is what I used to start outlining.  I was having a devil of a time getting into this book &#8211; I just couldn&#8217;t figure out WHY things were happening.  Worked through this post &#8211; and I started getting ideas.  It was awesome.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIf you try it, let me know. I&#8217;d love to see what you guys think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current NaNo wordcount: 5045 To be on Target: 5001 It&#8217;s not much of a cushion, but the fact that I&#8217;ve written 5k in the last three days is amazing to me, so I&#8217;ll enjoy it. I need to catch up a bit more with my outline, so I might not get a bunch done tomorrow, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=573\">>>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":[14,3,9,22],"tags":[61,10,56,58,66],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advent","category-metrics","category-nanowrimo","category-writing","tag-advent","tag-daily-update","tag-metrics","tag-nanowrimo","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573"}],"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=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}