{"id":13323,"date":"2020-11-15T12:37:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T12:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=13323"},"modified":"2020-11-15T12:57:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T12:57:19","slug":"2-forward-1-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=13323","title":{"rendered":"2 forward, 1 back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I set a deadline to have the latest novel finished by Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Excuse my hysterical laughter but&#8230; Ahahahahahahahaaaahahahahaaaa!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve gone off track a few times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s not like me to be so poorly-disciplined, but the characters have made me write four chapters which I have discarded. Although I might use the shell of one as the penultimate chapter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, that&#8217;s right. The characters made me do it. They have a habit of taking on their lives and living their own stories. And I do love them. Most of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My wordcount goal is 100-110k. The timeline is 12 months. The current stats look like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/WordCount3-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13325\" width=\"484\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/WordCount3-1.png 595w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/WordCount3-1-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/WordCount3-1-150x82.png 150w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/WordCount3-1-250x137.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early reports back from the three readers I&#8217;ve sent samples to have been encouraging. Except for one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The time is 70% writing and 30% research. If things were different in the world, I might have jumped on an airplane and done a few weeks research in person. But the Internet is a wonderful thing, eh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had a leftfield thought about publication the other day, and the more I give the idea serious consideration, the more I think using a pseudonym might be a good idea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reasons. Obvious. Later. Etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I set a deadline to have the latest novel finished by Christmas. Excuse my hysterical laughter but&#8230; Ahahahahahahahaaaahahahahaaaa! I&#8217;ve gone off track a few times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}