{"id":3010,"date":"2012-10-31T14:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=3010"},"modified":"2012-10-31T13:12:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T17:12:57","slug":"t-minus-10-hours-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/10\/31\/t-minus-10-hours-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"T minus 10 hours and counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/en\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/files.content.lettersandlight.org\/nano-2012-beta\/files\/2012\/09\/Generic-180x180.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/files.content.lettersandlight.org\/nano-2012-beta\/files\/2012\/09\/Generic-180x180.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>I love<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/en\"> National Novel Writing Month, <\/a>so much so that I have signed up for the challenge when I knew there would be no time, like that one year when we moved apartments in November.\u00a0 I wrote 23 thousand words that year before the file got corrupted.<\/p>\n<p>I hate to say it, but I won&#8217;t be signing up this year.\u00a0 I will be devoting November to writing, mostly finishing in progress stories and editing first drafts, but I will not be crafting a new novel from scratch starting tomorrow.\u00a0 I already miss the instant camaraderie of disembodied writers in motion.\u00a0 So, I&#8217;m going to have to live through you this year.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/en\"> Sign up to write a novel, <\/a>send me the link to your NaNoWriMo profile and give me weekly updates.\u00a0 I need this from you.\u00a0 I need you.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/en\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love National Novel Writing Month, so much so that I have signed up for the challenge when I knew there would be no time, like that one year when we moved apartments in November.\u00a0 I wrote 23 thousand words that year before the file got corrupted. I hate to say it, but I won&#8217;t&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/10\/31\/t-minus-10-hours-and-counting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">T minus 10 hours and counting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[8,55],"class_list":["post-3010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-nanowrimo","tag-writing-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6497,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/10\/09\/national-novel-writing-month\/","url_meta":{"origin":3010,"position":0},"title":"National Novel Writing Month","author":"leems","date":"October 9, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\"November 1-30. 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