{"id":8568,"date":"2013-11-12T18:02:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T00:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?p=8568"},"modified":"2013-11-12T18:02:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T00:02:29","slug":"year-vs-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?p=8568","title":{"rendered":"This Year vs. Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t help but compare this years Nano to last years. \u00a0If I was less lazy, I would go to the Nano website, look at the chart for last year, and compare it to this year. \u00a0But I already know what it will show. \u00a0Last year I was either ahead or close to on pace to finish my novel on time. \u00a0This year, I am not.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, I wrote with a purpose. \u00a0I had a specific goal in mind. \u00a0Maybe some day I&#8217;ll even share that goal. \u00a0This year, my story doesn&#8217;t really have a purpose. \u00a0Or rather, it does, but it&#8217;s vague and hard to grab onto and more general then specific. \u00a0I&#8217;m finding this to be a much harder way to write a story.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the writing is fine. \u00a0It&#8217;s the giving a crap about the story that&#8217;s the problem. \u00a0Without a specific focus to achieve, it&#8217;s hard for me to write, even when, like now, I&#8217;m sitting at my computer with nothing better to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t help but compare this years Nano to last years. \u00a0If I was less lazy, I would go to the Nano website, look at the chart for last year, and compare it to this year. \u00a0But I already know what it will show. \u00a0Last year I was either ahead or close to on pace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanowrimo-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8568","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}