{"id":9711,"date":"2012-10-27T11:37:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T16:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=9711"},"modified":"2012-10-27T11:37:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T16:37:25","slug":"novel-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=9711","title":{"rendered":"Novel ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again I am thinking I am going to take the <a href=http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/ target=1>NaNoWriMo<\/a> challenge.  The goal is to write a complete novel between November 1 and November 30.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people do this each year, although I&#8217;m not sure how many write their novels as daily public blog entries.  What I like about writing a novel as a series of blog posts is the aspect of shared discovery &#8212; you find out what happens pretty much when I do.<\/p>\n<p>Ideas are bubbling in my head, but I don&#8217;t want them to do more than bubble.  Rather, I&#8217;d like to see how the novel unfolds over the course of the month as the characters tell me who they really are and what they want to do.<\/p>\n<p>I am thinking I will incorporate various thoughts and ideas from commenters on this blog (some of you have made some wonderful comments).  Other than that, I will do my best to stay out of the characters&#8217; way as they go about their business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again I am thinking I am going to take the NaNoWriMo challenge. The goal is to write a complete novel between November 1 and November 30. Thousands of people do this each year, although I&#8217;m not sure how many write their novels as daily public blog entries. What I like about writing a novel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=9711\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Novel ideas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9712,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9711\/revisions\/9712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}