{"id":605,"date":"2011-12-06T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=605"},"modified":"2011-12-05T19:47:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T00:47:48","slug":"writingnanowrimo-lessons-ive-learned-from-this-years-nano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"(writing\/nanowrimo) Lessons I&#8217;ve learned from this year&#8217;s NaNo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, last NaNo post, I promise. \ud83d\ude42  But I learned a few things about my writing style this time around (I learn things every time, honestly) and I thought I&#8217;d share them with you guys.  So here are the lessons I&#8217;m taking away from this year.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<u>1. Planning:<\/u> I am not a pantser.  This NaNo really drove that point home.  I need to plan things out.  Once I started sitting down and planning what I was writing that day, I started getting the higher word counts.  That being said, I may be overplanning some things, and underplanning others.  Outlining, like writing, is an art, not a science, and I&#8217;m still perfecting my art.  I probably always will.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<u>2. Time:<\/u> I CAN write 4k in a day, if I have an idea of what I need to write and I make the time to write.  Most of my 4k days, I did very little but write.  This is not healthy &#8211; I gained about 10 lbs over the course of November, a combination of stress eating and not moving around enough.  In addition, my long-suffering husband barely saw me.  Not good.  However, I now know that if I need to, I can write 50k in a month.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<u>3. Kittens are your friend:<\/u> OMG, it seems so stupid, but seriously, <a href=http:\/\/www.writtenkitten.net>Written?Kitten!<\/a> got me through NaNo.  I have no doubt that I wouldn&#8217;t have made it without the kittens.  For those not familiar with the site, it gives you a new kitten (or sunrise or puppy or whathaveyou) picture for every certain number of words you type.  I went with the default 100 words, but you can do up to 1000, I believe.  Seriously, it works.  No, I have no idea why, but it does.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<u>4. Friends help, too:<\/u> Without my friends on Twitter, Facebook and Forward Motion, writing along with me and cheering me on, I wouldn&#8217;t have finished.  The community of writers is simply amazing.  That said, turning off Twitter\/Facebook helped me write too.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSo there you go.  Thus ends NaNoWriMo 2011.  Next year, I&#8217;ll win earlier than the last day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, last NaNo post, I promise. \ud83d\ude42 But I learned a few things about my writing style this time around (I learn things every time, honestly) and I thought I&#8217;d share them with you guys. So here are the lessons I&#8217;m taking away from this year. 1. Planning: I am not a pantser. This NaNo &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=605\">>>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":[9,22],"tags":[58,66],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanowrimo","category-writing","tag-nanowrimo","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605"}],"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=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}