{"id":491,"date":"2011-02-24T04:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T04:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/2011\/02\/24\/just-your-typical-lame-excuse-for-an-update\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T04:17:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T04:17:00","slug":"just-your-typical-lame-excuse-for-an-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/2011\/02\/24\/just-your-typical-lame-excuse-for-an-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Just your Typical, Lame Excuse for an Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>An important tip James Dashner gave at \u201cLife, the Universe &amp; Everything\u201d is that goals are important when writing. Now that does kind of go without saying, but it stands for repeating half a week later.<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As far as my writing goals go, I have generally had to keep the goals in my head rather than writing them down. Every time I\u2019ve written a writing goal down, I\u2019ve fallen behind at least a few months on accomplishing it. But if I share the goal with someone else, I\u2019d say it\u2019s about a 50\/50 chance that I\u2019ll achieve it. I figure the reasoning is similar to Stephen King\u2019s idea about writing \u2013 if it\u2019s a good idea, the author will remember it after a long time. On the same note, if my goal is good for me, writing it down will kind of distance it from the front of my mind. Not that I\u2019ve explained the concept very well\u2026<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But anyway, my point in bringing up goals is that I\u2019m currently in the process of rewriting my first novel. I\u2019ve written a whole bunch before but have never set about to rewrite a novel. After two great days of rewriting, I\u2019ve decided definitively (how\u2019s that for \u2013ly words?) that I will have the draft of my novel rewritten. Yes, it will only be the first rewrite, of course, but that\u2019s further than I\u2019ve ever taken such a long piece. And as I\u2019m rewriting the entire story and not just revising it, that will require a lot of work and effort. But I believe it\u2019s feasible and realistic (but we\u2019ll see now that I\u2019ve both written it down and made it public).<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So on writing, I\u2019ve been rereading Stephen King\u2019s book \u201cOn Writing.\u201d While it\u2019s a great read, I\u2019m discovering (along with Robert Jordan\u2019s \u201cThe Great Hunt\u201d that I\u2019m also rereading in preparation for the rest of the series) that the second time through of a book affects the appeal. That\u2019s not to say that Stephen King\u2019s book is bad writing or that his writing advice is no good; merely to say that the reader seems to get a whole lot more out of it the first time around.<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Well as I\u2019m focused on rewriting a novel these days, I\u2019d better get to that. So sianara!<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important tip James Dashner gave at \u201cLife, the Universe &amp; Everything\u201d is that goals are important when writing. Now that does kind of go without saying, but it stands for repeating half a week later. As far as my writing goals go, I have generally had to keep the goals in my head rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-update-on-life","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}