{"id":16,"date":"2007-11-05T11:58:29","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T16:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/11\/05\/living-vicariously\/"},"modified":"2007-11-05T11:58:29","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T16:58:29","slug":"living-vicariously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/11\/05\/living-vicariously\/","title":{"rendered":"Living vicariously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/\">National Novel Writing Month<\/a><\/strong> thing is really taking all my time.  Well, not really &#8230; it's just taking up some time I had been spending mucking around with the Colorado Burning Man mailing list.  So it should be a wash.<\/p>\n<p>The trouble is, I'm starting to live vicariously through my characters.  They're all having such a good time that I'd rather just stay home and find out what they're going to do next.  Of course, it's my novel, so &mdash; surprise &mdash; they end up hanging out at a bar talking a lot.  Whether it's realistic or good, I don't know, but at least I'm keeping with it.<\/p>\n<p>I need 5,000 words every three days to hit the 50K by the end of the month.  Ideally I'd like to be ahead by a little bit so I could take a day off, but so far I'm just barely treading water.  I imagine that at some point I'll stall out and that will probably piss me off.  I'm not looking forward to that.<\/p>\n<p>At least I'm saving money because it's way cheaper to write about people going to clubs and drinking at a bar than it is to actually do it yourself.  It's also funny how I happened to stop by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lux666.com\/\">Lux Lounge<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myspace.com\/lux666\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/images\/MySpace_13x13overFFFFFF.gif\" alt=\"MySpace link\" border=\"0\" height=\"13\" width=\"13\" \/><\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=666+South+Ave,+Rochester,+NY&amp;ll=43.14251,-77.60466&amp;spn=.005,.01&amp;hl=en\">666 South Ave.<\/a>) last weekend and was disappointed that it wasn't anything like the idealized place I'm writing about.  But then again, I don't want to write about the reality of it all &#8230; it's the most excellent parts that are what draw me to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This National Novel Writing Month thing is really taking all my time. Well, not really &#8230; it's just taking up some time I had been spending mucking around with the Colorado Burning Man mailing list. So it should be a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/11\/05\/living-vicariously\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,45],"tags":[63,64,62,60,47],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries","category-nanowrimo","tag-bar","tag-idealized","tag-lux","tag-national-novel-writing-month","tag-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}