{"id":859,"date":"2020-10-16T16:10:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T23:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=859"},"modified":"2020-10-16T16:10:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T23:10:30","slug":"culture-national-novel-writing-month-is-nearly-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/10\/16\/culture-national-novel-writing-month-is-nearly-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture: National Novel Writing Month is nearly here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Someone made the mistake of saying they needed a hobby, and so I zealously promoted NaNoWriMo to them.  Because: IT IS GREAT!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-pale-pink-color\">Do you want to write a first draft of a novel? In a month? As part of a socially-connected online community, with abundant daily encouragement?  <em>OF COURSE YOU DO!<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-theme=\"dark\"><h4><a href=\"https:\/\/nanowrimo.org\/\">NaNoWriMo<\/a><\/h4><p>Yaaay, novel-writing!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>I have four novellas from successful past NaNoWriMos, and while I&#8217;m trying to turn my attention to making photography books now, I&#8217;m still a zealot for sharing great experiences.  Participating in, and successfully completing, a 50,000 word novel\/la in a month is a GREAT experience!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s also surprising low pressure.  When I was participating, the idea was that your first novel isn&#8217;t going to be your best, so let&#8217;s just get it done and out of the way without agonizing over it!   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, 50,000 words divided over a 30 day month is just 1,667 words a day!  You probably TEXT that (emoji aside)!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the bragging rights! <span class=\"has-inline-color has-pale-pink-color\"> DO IT FOR THE BRAGGING RIGHTS!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I heartily recommend NaNoWriMo.  Do it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone made the mistake of saying they needed a hobby, and so I zealously promoted NaNoWriMo to them. Because: IT IS GREAT! Do you want to write a first draft of a novel? In a month? As part of a socially-connected online community, with abundant daily encouragement? OF COURSE YOU DO! NaNoWriMo Yaaay, novel-writing! I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/10\/16\/culture-national-novel-writing-month-is-nearly-here\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Culture: National Novel Writing Month is nearly here&#8221;<\/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":[9,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}