{"id":780,"date":"2006-11-02T10:20:59","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T10:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/02\/na-no-no-wri-mo\/"},"modified":"2006-11-02T10:20:59","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T10:20:59","slug":"na-no-no-wri-mo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/02\/na-no-no-wri-mo\/","title":{"rendered":"Na No NO Wri Mo"},"content":{"rendered":"

November has been dubbed “National Novel Writing Month<\/a>” or “NaNoWriMo” for those with too short an attention span to handle full words, in which people will commit to trying to write an entire novel in just thirty days. If you look around a bit, you’ll see lots of blogs and LiveJournals tracking the progress made by various writers for the next month. The artificial deadline probably helps at least some inveterate procrastinators to actually sit down and write, though I wonder whether it’s really possible to produce a commercially viable first novel this way.<\/p>\n

At this time, I would like to publically commit to not<\/strong> writing a novel in the next month. Because, well, I know people who read slush, and I wouldn’t want to inflict on them the sort of book I would write while teaching classes, grading papers, and fretting about my tenure case (rumor has it that the external reviewers have submitted their reports, so the process is moving along). Not to mention hosting Thanksgiving dinner in a few weeks.<\/p>\n

Would I ever consider doing such a thing? Maybe. But damn, November is a bad month for it.<\/p>\n

(It’s also going to be a lousy month for blogging, which is a shame coming off October’s record traffic, but there’s nothing I can do about that.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

November has been dubbed “National Novel Writing Month” or “NaNoWriMo” for those with too short an attention span to handle full words, in which people will commit to trying to write an entire novel in just thirty days. If you look around a bit, you’ll see lots of blogs and LiveJournals tracking the progress made… Continue reading Na No NO Wri Mo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}