{"id":42038,"date":"2012-09-04T18:30:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T18:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/09\/04\/baby-steps\/"},"modified":"2012-09-04T18:30:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T18:30:30","slug":"baby-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/09\/04\/baby-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&rsquo;t help but feel a little lazy on the long weekend, so on Monday I finally opened up my documents for <em>A God Grown Old<\/em> again. \u00a0And what do you know: I really like what I&rsquo;ve written so far. \u00a0Even if a lot of it goes by the wayside, as the first drafts of openings tend to do, I&rsquo;ve gotten a lot of character setup and foundation out of the way, and that&rsquo;s really what I need to catapult into the main action. \u00a0I managed to write another 1300 or so, pushing past the block I&rsquo;ve been ignoring since&hellip; Gah, dare I admit it? \u00a0Since MAY. Yup, the document hadn&rsquo;t been modified since a solid four months ago. I felt great shame.<\/p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t know if this is the start of a consistent writing schedule, but since I&rsquo;m trying to focus on getting a draft down instead of perfecting it, perhaps these baby steps will turn into a bit of a trot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&rsquo;t help but feel a little lazy on the long weekend, so on Monday I finally opened up my documents for A God Grown Old again. \u00a0And what do you know: I really like what I&rsquo;ve written so far. \u00a0Even if a lot of it goes by the wayside, as the first drafts of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/09\/04\/baby-steps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Baby steps&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7957,11556,8071,4629,11],"class_list":["post-42038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-god-grown-old","tag-aggo","tag-motivation","tag-word-count","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42038","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=42038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}