{"id":680,"date":"2006-10-11T10:34:27","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T15:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=680"},"modified":"2020-01-03T12:22:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T17:22:44","slug":"need-to-light-a-fire-under-your-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/need-to-light-a-fire-under-your-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Need to light a fire under your PC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here you go! Via Carrie Patrick, November is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\">National Novel Writing Month<\/a>. Hooray!<\/p>\n<p>According to the How it Works page, all you need to do &#8220;to win&#8221; is sign up and write 50,000 words between November 1 and November 30. Then you email the completed draft to them to verify word count and get your &#8220;winner&#8221; web certificate. According to the FAQs, your novel is deleted unread. In case you&#8217;re wondering where copies of your work-in-progress might show up: nowhere, unless you want them to.<\/p>\n<p>Cool idea, eh? And check out the FAQs to see a list of novels begun as NaNoWriMo projects that were later published.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m seriously thinking of jumping in with a novel idea I&#8217;m noodling but haven&#8217;t committed to word processor yet. I mean, the participation icons alone make it worthwhile, dontcha think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here you go! Via Carrie Patrick, November is National Novel Writing Month. Hooray! According to the How it Works page, all you need to do &#8220;to win&#8221; is sign up and write 50,000 words between November 1 and November 30. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/need-to-light-a-fire-under-your-pc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[3],"tags":[310,403],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-nanowrimo","tag-national-novel-writing-month"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6115,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/6115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}