I seriously considered blowing off NaNoWriMo again this year, as I have done in previous years, because I honestly don’t believe I’d get anywhere close to the word count. My life is rather full at the moment.<\/p>\n
But the other night, while gradually downshifting my brain for sleep, I came up with a plotline that I really like. Setting and conflict sprang to mind, though character and resolution still evade me. Also, some of it’s a touch derivative, and I’ll have to address that sooner or later. I wish to make sure that I have something original to say.<\/p>\n
I seriously doubt I can spin out 50,000 words of it before December, but leaving NNWM out of the picture, this is the best idea I’ve had in a few years. It could well be worth pursuing.<\/p>\n
There’s a blog called Slacktivist where, among other things, the writer presents his opinion of the “Left Behind” books<\/a> in great detail. (Said opinion isn’t positive.) What I bookmarked, though, is Slacktivist’s link to Kurt Vonnegut’s “Eight rules for writing fiction<\/a>.” Vonnegut isn’t exactly my favorite writer ever, but that’s an excellent list, and one I try to keep in mind when I’m writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I seriously considered blowing off NaNoWriMo again this year, as I have done in previous years, because I honestly don’t believe I’d get anywhere close to the word count. My life is rather full at the moment. But the other night, while gradually downshifting my brain for sleep, I came up with a plotline that […]<\/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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-8c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}