{"id":195,"date":"2016-10-11T11:42:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T15:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/?p=195"},"modified":"2019-02-10T13:29:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T18:29:49","slug":"nano-2016-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/11\/nano-2016-prep\/","title":{"rendered":"NaNo 2016: Prep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get a little <em>squee<\/em>\u00a0of joy whenever I think about NaNo.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s\u00a0because of the camaraderie. I&#8217;ve done other NaNo-esque months on my own (last June I did 70K on <em>Embers<\/em> in a month) but\u00a0they are never\u00a0the same. More of a slog. Frustrating and lonely. Running a marathon on one&#8217;s own is not the same as with a crowd (I am assuming since I don&#8217;t run marathons; my feeling is if God had wanted me to run marathons, they would have invented a better sports bra). I&#8217;m active in NaNo&#8217;s forums and on Twitter all through November, and that&#8217;s the difference.\u00a0This year I even plan on hosting an informal write-in on Sunday nights at our neighbourhood Starbucks, which has a big table, and I&#8217;m really looking forward to seeing who turns up.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly settled on what to write. I would say 70% chance I will work on a new novel, set in the Melanie-verse. That leaves 30% chance that my brain will say NO NO NO NO NO and I will end up working on <em>Embers<\/em> again. I would rather use NaNo to start and finish a single draft in one go, but whatevs. As long as I am writing again every day I don&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve purposefully arranged my schedule of projects so that November is left (creatively) alone. And on that note, I&#8217;m happy to announce that Grace &amp; Victory&#8217;s latest project, <em>Becoming Beast<\/em> by Laura Dehaan, will be launching on Halloween! Hooray! It&#8217;s a great story, and while the cover is still a W.I.P., I am pretty proud of it so far.\u00a0Next week Laura is guest-posting with her take on Things I Wish People Would Ask Me At Parties, so that will be fun. And rambly.<\/p>\n<p>Have you signed up for NaNo yet? Have any ideas? Are you a plotter, or a pantser like me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I love about NaNo and what I&#8217;m hoping for in the upcoming month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[69,88],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-writing","tag-nanowrimo","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","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=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}