{"id":12153,"date":"2014-01-17T06:15:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T06:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/01\/17\/augustwritesabook-know-what-that-is-on-the\/"},"modified":"2017-06-30T21:39:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T21:39:19","slug":"augustwritesabook-know-what-that-is-on-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/01\/17\/augustwritesabook-know-what-that-is-on-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-12153 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/01\/17\/augustwritesabook-know-what-that-is-on-the\/attachment\/12154\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mzj81oFE0b1rsbe2bo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mzj81oFE0b1rsbe2bo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mzj81oFE0b1rsbe2bo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/augustwritesabook.com\/post\/73592756342\/know-what-that-is-on-the-left-thats-less-than\">augustwritesabook<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>know what that is on the left? that\u2019s less than 100 pages remaining of 210 on my first pass through\u00a0<em>First Run<\/em>. that\u2019s a lot of sheets of paper, a lot of little ticki-ticki from a rickety pen (from Preston, this kid I know from school who was perhaps one of the most interesting characters I\u2019ve ever encountered, a word wizard and life hacker extraordinaire; he found a massive box of brand new pens on the side of the road and brought them to me), and a lot of thoughts crossed out and reordered.<\/p>\n<p>I keep thinking, woah. I wrote this in November? I keep going to read scenes aloud to Jake and stopping myself because I want him to experience it as a whole. this is intensely personal. this is that whole giving birth to a book cliche, and as much as I despise being a cliche, I will own you if you touch my baby. actually I\u2019ll probably just pout and make up a story where Gus kicks your ass.<\/p>\n<p>some gratifying moments so far: not remembering what the character did next after a scary setup, deciding, then turning the page to find out it\u2019s what I\u2019d written in the first place; chuckling aloud at dialogue; chipping away at this block of stone and realizing there\u2019s what I\u2019m starting to think is a pretty cool story underneath.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve said it to Jake and I\u2019ll say it again: my deadline for the written portion of this self-exam is due on January 31. just for accountabilitieses.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>augustwritesabook: know what that is on the left? that\u2019s less than 100 pages remaining of 210 on my first pass through\u00a0First Run. that\u2019s a lot of sheets of paper, a lot of little ticki-ticki from a rickety pen (from Preston, this kid I know from school who was perhaps one of the most interesting characters &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/01\/17\/augustwritesabook-know-what-that-is-on-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1371,939],"class_list":["post-12153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-asdfghjkl","tag-writerlife","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12155,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12153\/revisions\/12155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}