{"id":413,"date":"2012-12-11T00:40:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T05:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/?p=413"},"modified":"2012-12-11T22:32:43","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T03:32:43","slug":"novel-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/2012\/12\/11\/novel-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Novel update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I&#8217;m in the midst of writing my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/2012\/07\/31\/story-mapping-my-next-novel\/\">new novel<\/a>, I&#8217;m trying to get down at least 1,000 words a day. Some days I breeze right by that; other days, finding enough time to make that much progress is pretty hard.\u00c2\u00a0 But I feel that once you have the first chapter right, everything else picks up its own momentum, so even though it&#8217;s been a long time coming now that I&#8217;m working on it it&#8217;s going pretty smoothly.\u00c2\u00a0 My wife pointed out that it&#8217;s been over five years since I&#8217;ve worked on a big fiction project, so it feels good to be back in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Stuff that&#8217;s inspiring me today: a new Walter Mosley <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2012\/12\/reply-to-a-dead-man\/309176\/\" target=\"_blank\">short story<\/a>, a gamebook project on Kickstarter called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1615043334\/arcana-agency-the-thief-of-memories-a-full-color-g\" target=\"_blank\">Arcana Agency<\/a>, and Mastodon&#8217;s Blood Mountain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I&#8217;m in the midst of writing my new novel, I&#8217;m trying to get down at least 1,000 words a day. Some days I breeze right by that; other days, finding enough time to make that much progress is pretty hard.\u00c2\u00a0 But I feel that once you have the first chapter right, everything else [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}