{"id":10523,"date":"2005-10-06T08:27:15","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T12:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/06\/we\/"},"modified":"2005-10-06T08:27:38","modified_gmt":"2005-10-06T12:27:38","slug":"we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/06\/we\/","title":{"rendered":"Take your 250 and&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weather took a nasty turn this week and with it, my writing streak. Until Sunday, daily word count averaged in the low 1000&#8217;s. For the past few days, it&#8217;s back to 250 a day land. Sometimes a twist in the road can be wicked.<\/p>\n<p>With roughly11 scenes left and 10-12,000 words unwritten, the final word count looks destined for the low 90,000 range. As long as the story flows and is uniformly clear, a little less works for me. However, I suspect that the 100,000 estimate might happen anyway during revisions. A top down walk through revealed very few pruning candidates, but shed the light on some spots where the story needed additional details.<\/p>\n<p>October is very doable, at least in terms of finishing the draft. After that an expert team of volunteer readers convenes. Right now the group stands at five. I&#8217;m considering a sixth in case of scheduling conflicts. Five can do it, though. That&#8217;s enough people who haven&#8217;t dealt with me talking through the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather took a nasty turn this week and with it, my writing streak. Until Sunday, daily word count averaged in the low 1000&#8217;s. For the past few days, it&#8217;s back to 250 a day land. Sometimes a twist in the road can be wicked. With roughly11 scenes left and 10-12,000 words unwritten, the final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}