{"id":6470,"date":"2012-12-07T16:49:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T22:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?p=6470"},"modified":"2012-12-07T16:49:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T22:49:54","slug":"postnano-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?p=6470","title":{"rendered":"Post-NaNo Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NaNoWriMo went fine, and I&#8217;m still working on the novel &#8212; but now I&#8217;m trying to throw off the post-NaNo funk. (Ted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/11\/decemberfriction\/\">wrote about this last week<\/a>, and I pretty much just nodded along.)<\/p>\n<p>While writing is often a solitary experience, I am not a solitary person. I\u00a0<em>thrive<\/em> on company, even if all we&#8217;re doing is drinking coffee and doing something inherently unsocial, like writing. Maybe it comes from small housing and lots of siblings; I&#8217;m just no good at being alone. I <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">only sort of<\/span> joke that I want to move my friends into one of those polygamist houses I once saw on <em>Sister Wives<\/em> &#8212; for the ease of company, not the sex, obviously.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So NaNoWriMo is like a little slice of Heaven every month. All my writing friends in one place? Check. Space and time dedicated to writing? Check. All the coffee a girl could OD on? And check.<\/p>\n<p>Hello, month long writing party.<\/p>\n<p>Coming down is hard. For a couple days I sort of stewed and hated my novel and did pretty much nothing. It took a lot of effort for me to open the Scrivener again. Then I stared at it. I made a list of issues that had to be resolved. I eventually forced myself to outline the missing chunks of the novel.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s coming along.<\/p>\n<p>NaNo isn&#8217;t the challenge &#8212; it&#8217;s not easy, but I feel like our region is generally tuned for success. The challenge is in keeping up the enthusiasm and spirit to write when its over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NaNoWriMo went fine, and I&#8217;m still working on the novel &#8212; but now I&#8217;m trying to throw off the post-NaNo funk. (Ted wrote about this last week, and I pretty much just nodded along.) While writing is often a solitary experience, I am not a solitary person. I\u00a0thrive on company, even if all we&#8217;re doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[733],"class_list":["post-6470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanowrimo-2","tag-nanowrimo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}