{"id":1038,"date":"2020-11-24T18:50:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T23:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2020-11-24T18:50:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T23:50:33","slug":"40k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/40k\/","title":{"rendered":"40K!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>First of all, a huge thanks to all of you who comforted me and gave me motivation this morning. This is the ups and downs of a writer. One moment you&#8217;re euphoric over an amazing turn of phrase, the next you&#8217;re despondent over the turd that you just smeared across the page. But you press on, if you really want to be a writer. You write. As Hemmingway has been erroneously quoted as saying, \u201cYou simply sit down at the typewriter, open your veins, and bleed.\u201d (Apparently, it was actually sportswriter Walter Wellesley \u201cRed\u201d Smith who said it.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I bled some more on the page tonight. I broke 40,000 words. 9,737 words left to write to hit 50,000. And my little elves did do some work while I was not writing. They got me as far as the High Tower Surprise. So, I know exactly what kind of trouble my heroes are getting into, but still not sure how they&#8217;re getting out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, a huge thanks to all of you who comforted me and gave me motivation this morning. This is the ups and downs of a writer. One moment you&#8217;re euphoric over an amazing turn of phrase, the next you&#8217;re despondent over the turd that you just smeared across the page. But you press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[176],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}