{"id":389,"date":"2017-11-07T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/?p=389"},"modified":"2019-02-12T19:45:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T00:45:11","slug":"week-2-weepies-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/07\/week-2-weepies-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2 Weepies 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Week 2 of NaNo is upon us, and even with my extremely forgiving goal (of just hitting &#8216;the end&#8217; of <em>Blackout Odyssey<\/em>) the Weepies are striking right on time (and also in conjunction with PMS because OF COURSE). Rejections from short stories are hitting hard this week, but that&#8217;s not unusual; it&#8217;s just another blow to my motivations.<\/p>\n<p>So limited blog this week while I focus my energies into novelling.<\/p>\n<p>Although. There is&#8230; <strong>Thor 3<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>See, last month I realized that seeing Thor 3 in theatres would be the perfect carrot\/stick combo to beat the Weepies (namely, if I don&#8217;t hit my target word count for the 10th, I can&#8217;t go to the movies with all the other faces). So I need to hit 16,667 words by Friday evening. I&#8217;m at 43% of that currently. So&#8230; that&#8217;s my update for the week.<\/p>\n<p>43% of Thor-viewing capacity reached. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edit:<\/strong> Thanks to productive outlining, the Pomodoro method, and Cadbury&#8217;s Dairy Milk, I did 8 15-minute poromoros and brought my wordcount up by <strong>4,747 words<\/strong>. I&#8217;m now up to NaNo&#8217;s suggested word count and I&#8217;m at 72% Thor-vewing capacity.\u00a0Pomodoros really do work for getting shit done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week 2 of NaNo is upon us, and even with my extremely forgiving goal (of just hitting &#8216;the end&#8217; of Blackout Odyssey) the Weepies are striking right on time!<\/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":[81,102,69,138,136,98],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-writing","tag-blackout-odyssey","tag-math","tag-nanowrimo","tag-pomodoro-method","tag-thor","tag-week2weepies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","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=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/957"}],"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=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}