{"id":1838,"date":"2012-04-23T21:55:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T04:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2017-04-08T20:53:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T03:53:57","slug":"excellent-progress-is-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/23\/excellent-progress-is-not-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellent Progress is Not Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve done 6 pages of THE CLOCKWORK TIME MACHINE today, double the needed Script Frenzy rate.<\/p>\n

If only I wasn’t already 40+ pages behind!<\/p>\n

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I don’t think I’ve ever been this far behind on a National Novel Writing Month-like challenge, or with so much else to do in my life.<\/p>\n

Time to step up my game.<\/p>\n

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New late-night coffeehouse detected, spouse alerted, necessary emails sent, distractions out of the way. 3 pages to go to get back on target; a magical 4 pages will put me ahead for the day – a pace that can only lead to victory! What would Jeremiah say?<\/p>\n

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GEORGIANA<\/p>\n

Oh, dear God, I’m right.<\/p>\n

The murmuring now becomes an open free for all. All the characters start speaking over each other.<\/p>\n

PATRICK<\/p>\n

Hang it all, it’s not possible for him to undo history—<\/p>\n

NATASHA<\/p>\n

Fine for you, you’re a man, you’ve a place in the world he wants—<\/p>\n

BIRMINGHAM<\/p>\n

So we’ve found him. Excellent. Any similarity to this speculation is surely simple coincidence—<\/p>\n

SIR ALICE<\/p>\n

Coincidence? We’ve never gotten a demagnetizer past the Confederates antenna arrays before—<\/p>\n

Jeremiah calmly draws her sole working Kathodenstrahl and fires a blast straight up. The unlit chandelier beneath the apex of the dome flickers with lightning and light.<\/p>\n

JEREMIAH<\/p>\n

Do I have your attention?<\/p>\n

(glances around)<\/p>\n

Gentlemen and gentlewomen. The Lady Georgiana has identified an a threat to our very existence, and Sir Alice has just confirmed it.<\/p>\n

She holsters her weapon, then looks at the spectroscope.<\/p>\n

JEREMIAH<\/p>\n

Sir Alice, I must recommend extreme boldness.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Extreme boldness, indeed.<\/p>\n

Prevail, Victoriana!<\/p>\n

-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve done 6 pages of THE CLOCKWORK TIME MACHINE today, double the needed Script Frenzy rate. If only I wasn’t already 40+ pages behind! I don’t think I’ve ever been…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,199,1],"tags":[4,100,66],"class_list":["post-1838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-steampunk","category-uncategorized","tag-dragon-writers","tag-script-frenzy","tag-the-clockwork-time-machine","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3808,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions\/3808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}