{"id":1258,"date":"2002-11-05T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-05T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2002\/11\/word-count.html"},"modified":"2002-11-05T22:58:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-05T22:58:00","slug":"word-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2002\/11\/word-count.html","title":{"rendered":"Word Count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up to 8,551, which has me pretty much right on track (and how did I get so much done, you might ask? Easy! Adam&#8217;s off at a section event tonight). This is a lot easier to do this year than last. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s because it seems like I have more time to write, or just if it&#8217;s because I know that it can be done.  I find I&#8217;m able to write without too much of a problem&#8230; but what I&#8217;m writing has got to be some of the driest stuff ever written. It&#8217;s as if I&#8217;ve completely forgotten how a novel is supposed to read, as if I&#8217;ve never read a fictional book in my life. I have a plot, but really no idea of how to get from point A to point B and my character is terribly boring (which is especially devastating, since she <i>is<\/i> supposed to be based on me), and I probably should work out some sort of outline on where the hell this is actually going.  Work is a little slow right now as I wait for my newsletter to get back from design, so maybe I can think about the outline there. By the way, my novel is temporarily titled <i>Learnings<\/i>. I&#8217;m open to suggestions for better titles (and more plot ideas).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of work, I spent half of today obsessing because I forgot to spellcheck an e-mail before it went out, and it went out with a truly horrible typo (and no, I won&#8217;t tell you what it is). It was horrible enough that I turned on automatic spellcheck, if though it&#8217;s incredibly annoying since 95% of my e-mails are going to friends, and I don&#8217;t cap or punctuate or really even care so it just slows me down.  I can&#8217;t help it. I obsess about these things. (And how is it that spellcheck doesn&#8217;t recognize the word &#8220;spellcheck,&#8221; and it surely must be one word although Microsoft Word has the following forms listed: spell check, spell-check, spellchecker, spellchecked.  That&#8217;s wrong. I hereby declare &#8220;spellcheck&#8221; to be one word. And in future dictionaries, when the etymology is described, I&#8217;d like credit for it, please.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up to 8,551, which has me pretty much right on track (and how did I get so much done, you might ask? Easy! Adam&#8217;s off at a section event tonight). This is a lot easier to do this year than last. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s because it seems like I have more time to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}