{"id":279,"date":"2010-03-18T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T03:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chloeneill.com\/?p=279"},"modified":"2010-03-18T22:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T03:17:00","slug":"fifty-thousand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Thousand!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally, I’ve hit 50,000 words. <\/p>\n

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Theoretically, that means the manuscript for HEXBOUND is on its downhill slide (word count-wise, not quality-wise), but that doesn’t mean the last 20,000 (or 28.6%) will be easy. HEXBOUND has been fighting me for the entire write. I absolutely love the book, and there are scenes that still surprise me, but it’s been a one-word-at-a-time struggle to get this bad girl on paper. <\/div>\n
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And for those of you who’ve asked–yes, I get writer’s block. For me, it’s akin to a profound lack of concentration, where I’m too distracted, too tired, or too short on time to really step *into* the scene. As I discussed with a colleague a couple of days ago, it’s also one of the downsides of having to constantly shift tasks — by the time you really get some steam, it’s time to move on to some other crisis.<\/div>\n
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But, the words are still coming, and the book is scheduled to be on time, so I have absolutely nothing to complain about. But that’s what blogs are for, right?? \ud83d\ude09<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally, I’ve hit 50,000 words. Theoretically, that means the manuscript for HEXBOUND is on its downhill slide (word count-wise, not quality-wise), but that doesn’t mean the last 20,000 (or 28.6%) will be easy. HEXBOUND has been fighting me for the entire write. I absolutely love the book, and there are scenes that still surprise me,[…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[355,119,361],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-dark-elite","tag-hexbound","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}