{"id":1291,"date":"2019-07-30T10:19:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T14:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2019-07-30T10:19:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T14:19:37","slug":"camp-nano-2019-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/30\/camp-nano-2019-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Camp Nano 2019: Goals!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What a weird and wild session this month has been; I struggled with the first two weeks to get back into the swing of <em>Fletcher &amp; Cooper<\/em> after months away, but then, last week everything began to snap together in the most satisfying way possible. I could suddenly see the path through, and all I had to do was walk it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My plan last week was to turn both Thursday and Friday into 5K days. Even if I didn&#8217;t wrap up the plot, I wanted to hit my word count and get as close as possible. Good solid college try, you know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last Thursday I wrote 4500+ words before my early-afternoon appointment. And I felt like I could&#8217;ve done more, but I wanted to pace myself, so I let it rest there, ready to start first thing on Friday. In hindsighed, it was a good choice, because on Friday <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>wrote<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>10,426<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>words<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/vfeistner\/status\/1154755311330299907\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I thought 8K would be ambitious, but doable. If I broke the day up into 25 minute pomodoros with a conservative estimate of 800 words per pom, I needed only 10&#8211;maybe 11, to be safe&#8211;which is 5-6 hours of writing spread out over 12 hours. After a mid-afternoon walk while thinking about the endgame and a whooole lot of coffee, I came home recharged and ended up sailing beyond 8K straight into 10Ktown&#8211;blowing past my Camp NaNo 30K monthly goal in the process&#8211;and oh my god. It <em>felt amazing<\/em>. I was literally too giddy to sleep for hours. (That might have been the caffeine too, admittedly.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/vfeistner\/status\/1154919021302681602\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then on Saturday I did another 4K because O.M.G. PLOT. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SO. MUCH. PLOT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunday I mostly recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monday I read through the roughly 20K I&#8217;d written over three days in a fever-dream, and you know what? It wasn&#8217;t too bad! I added another thousand words, mostly in the form of edits\/tweaks and then went off to do my Submission Monday work, feeling satisfied that I was on the right track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then I sat down this morning and wrote a leisurely 1300 words, all before 10am, and while that might seem anticlimactic after Friday&#8217;s big win, this particular set of writing happened to contain two <em>very <\/em>good words indeed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>THE END<\/strong><\/p><cite>Fletcher &amp; Cooper, July 2019<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy NaNo, faces! Enjoy your summer, stay hydrated, and remember to set goals, not dreams!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is important to set reasonable goals so as to have reasonable expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,179,9],"tags":[182,70,208],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news","category-writing","tag-camp-nano","tag-fletchercooper","tag-the-end"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1303,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions\/1303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}