{"id":195,"date":"2008-11-30T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=195"},"modified":"2017-04-08T20:57:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T03:57:01","slug":"another-battle-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/30\/another-battle-won\/","title":{"rendered":"Another battle won&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/uploaded_images\/nano_08_winner_viking_120x238-787596.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 238px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/uploaded_images\/nano_08_winner_viking_120x238-787588.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>&#8230; I have just completed ~75,000 words for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/eng\/user\/255178\">National Novel Writing Month 2008<\/a>, which puts me over the top of my self-imposed target for November: 50,000 words more than I started with.<\/p>\n<p>I had those extra 25,000 words to start with because I had planned to do two Nanowrimos back to back, thinking I could finish Blood Rock in October and start a new novel in November.  Foolish mortal, who do you think you are, Asimov?<\/p>\n<p>Blood Rock is the sequel to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/2008\/09\/frost-moon-submitted.html\">Frost Moon<\/a>, last year&#8217;s Nanowrimo entry.  I have already started work on the sequels, Liquid Fire and Hex Code.  I have ideas for many more in this series, but I plan to keep doing them only as long as they&#8217;re fun.<\/p>\n<p>Like its predecessor, I expect Blood Rock to top out at just under 90,000 words, so hopefully I will be able to finish the first draft in mid-December.  Here&#8217;s gunning for it!<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; I have just completed ~75,000 words for National Novel Writing Month 2008, which puts me over the top of my self-imposed target for November: 50,000 words more than I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,1,202],"tags":[6,4,91],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenges","category-uncategorized","category-writing","tag-dakota-frost","tag-dragon-writers","tag-nanowrimo","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","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=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}