{"id":545,"date":"2011-10-19T18:56:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T22:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=545"},"modified":"2011-10-19T18:56:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T22:56:59","slug":"in-the-spirit-of-nanowrimo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2011\/10\/19\/in-the-spirit-of-nanowrimo\/","title":{"rendered":"In the spirit of NaNoWriMo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/Stories.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Penelope Sea and Ocean End\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/images\/PenelopeSeacolor50.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"304\" \/> \u00a0 <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/Stories.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Tattoo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/images\/TattooCoversmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So, in the spirit of National Novel Writing Month, I have made mock-up covers to replace two of the &#8216;image coming soon&#8217; notices on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/Stories.html\">stories page<\/a>.\u00a0 They just happen to be for the stories that have a finished draft&#8211;that was totally accidental.\u00a0 I still have no idea what I&#8217;m writing for National Novel Writing Month, and I am still trying to finish another in progress before November 1st rolls around.\u00a0 It&#8217;d be nice if this year were the first I could come up with a cover idea for November&#8217;s novel before November is over.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll keep dreaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 So, in the spirit of National Novel Writing Month, I have made mock-up covers to replace two of the &#8216;image coming soon&#8217; notices on my stories page.\u00a0 They just happen to be for the stories that have a finished draft&#8211;that was totally accidental.\u00a0 I still have no idea what I&#8217;m writing for National Novel&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2011\/10\/19\/in-the-spirit-of-nanowrimo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In the spirit of NaNoWriMo<\/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":[8,53],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-nanowrimo","tag-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3734,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/04\/01\/national-novel-writing-month-spring-writing-marathon\/","url_meta":{"origin":545,"position":0},"title":"National Novel Writing Month Spring Writing Marathon","author":"leems","date":"April 1, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I've trumpeted National Novel Writing Month a ton on this here blog.\u00a0 I have enjoyed every year I have participated.\u00a0 Not only have they created an environment of encouragement and commiseration for people who may have never ventured into writing otherwise (my Mother), but they do great things to encourage\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6497,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/10\/09\/national-novel-writing-month\/","url_meta":{"origin":545,"position":1},"title":"National Novel Writing Month","author":"leems","date":"October 9, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\"November 1-30. The world needs your novel.\"\u00a0 -- National Novel Writing Month If you know me, you know I am a big sucker for NaNoWriMo.\u00a0 And that I often don't finish and have taken myself out of the running for a little while in order to work on started but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/crest-bda7b7a6e1b57bb9fb8ce9772b8faafb.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":591,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2011\/11\/30\/national-novel-writing-month-done\/","url_meta":{"origin":545,"position":2},"title":"National Novel Writing Month Done!","author":"leems","date":"November 30, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I did it, after two years of enough obstacles and sabotage to ruin my chances of winning--I have triumphed ONCE AGAIN!\u00a0 That is, finally again after the first time in 2008.\u00a0 I have completed a brand new novel of over 50,000 words in the month of November.\u00a0 And what's better--it's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Winner_120_200_white.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3010,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/10\/31\/t-minus-10-hours-and-counting\/","url_meta":{"origin":545,"position":3},"title":"T minus 10 hours and counting","author":"leems","date":"October 31, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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