{"id":85,"date":"2018-11-07T16:18:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T16:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2019-12-13T20:33:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T20:33:53","slug":"words-in-a-physical-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/07\/words-in-a-physical-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Words in a Physical World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WRITING WEDNESDAY: National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is happening this month and a group of mystery writers, some of them published, have jumped in. I&#8217;m more in the wading pool&#8211;writing, too, but not at the same volume of words that NaNoWriMo reguires. The daily goal is 1,660 words so by the end of month each successful participant will have a short novel of 50,000 words. Critics have disparaged this process, saying that it will only lead to badly written sludge. Other<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">s have found it extremely helpful to be part of a community to cheer and push them on. For me as an introvert and private in some ways, I&#8217;m reluctant to post my creative project on the NaNoWriMo website. For me, a better alternative is to share my writing progress with a much smaller and trusted group of colleagues.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>I don&#8217;t like the standard word count because it doesn&#8217;t take in account life, research and basically brainstorming and connecting. But sometimes, admittedly, I can submerge myself in the formless aspects of writing stories without actually putting many words on the computer screen and paper. So NaNoWriMo, just like my half-marathon running schedule (I don&#8217;t do these anymore!), give tangible daily goals so by the time you really run the race, you&#8217;ll be ready and not blindsided.<\/p>\n<p>If you need an outside push, maybe instead of NaNoWriMo, you can find some other writers who can hold you accountable to your creative goals. That way you won&#8217;t be floating away in your imagination, but also aware that something tangible needs to be left in the physical world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WRITING WEDNESDAY: National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is happening this month and a group of mystery writers, some of them published, have jumped in. I&#8217;m more in the wading pool&#8211;writing, too, but not at the same volume of words that NaNoWriMo reguires. The daily goal is 1,660 words so by the end of month each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}