{"id":1068,"date":"2020-11-30T10:03:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T15:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2020-11-30T10:03:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T15:03:20","slug":"50k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/50k\/","title":{"rendered":"50K!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I did it. I managed to write 50,000 words towards a novel for the first time since 2007. Yes, it&#8217;s mostly horrible. Yes, there are parts that make no sense, but yes, I have words that I can hand to Editor Jackson to do something with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best of all, I managed to institute a habit of writing every day. I managed to convince myself that I still have ideas, and I still can write. I managed to prove that I don&#8217;t need to wait for motivation. I just need to sit down and write. I know this would have been a lot tougher if not for Save the Cat! Writes a Novel and Story Engineering. Those two books helped a lot with the preparation and made the going easier for the most part. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, I celebrate. Tomorrow, I start anew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did it. I managed to write 50,000 words towards a novel for the first time since 2007. Yes, it&#8217;s mostly horrible. Yes, there are parts that make no sense, but yes, I have words that I can hand to Editor Jackson to do something with them. Best of all, I managed to institute a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1067,"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\/1068"}],"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=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksontejada.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}