{"id":389,"date":"2010-11-30T19:18:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T00:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefourpartland.com\/blog\/?p=389"},"modified":"2010-11-30T19:18:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T00:18:11","slug":"today-is-a-good-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thefourpartland.com\/blog\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"Today Is A Good Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have finished National Novel Writing Month as a winner, at 50700 words done for the month after the validation tool made me write another 700 to complete. That means I have done 86,000 words in two months, which is where Laeccan Waters sits today. I&#8217;m going to take a break from it for a little, to finish the first term of school, but I&#8217;m hoping it will be done by the end of January. Estimates for final length are around 125-145k, before edits.<\/p>\n<p>In other good news, my first piece of flash fiction ever submitted for publication was accepted, and is now online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/microw\/2010\/11\/microwwinter2010\/\">MiCrow<\/a>. Go over there, take a look at all the pieces, and scroll down until you find mine.<\/p>\n<p>Because I feel it&#8217;s finally time to do so, I&#8217;m going to begin editing stories and sending them off for submission (I don&#8217;t do either, up until now). Don&#8217;t fear that it will reduce the amount of content posted here, as I can still churn out plenty of material, although more of it will be flash. <\/p>\n<p>And now I am off to enjoy today with a large cider and a cool apartment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have finished National Novel Writing Month as a winner, at 50700 words done for the month after the validation tool made me write another 700 to complete. That means I have done 86,000 words in two months, which is where Laeccan Waters sits today. I&#8217;m going to take a break from it for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[36,4,12,34],"tags":[21,25,26],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pRIK4-6h","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":381,"url":"http:\/\/thefourpartland.com\/blog\/?p=381","url_meta":{"origin":389,"position":0},"title":"100 Posts of Solitude","date":"November 24, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"And I'm still here and still writing away happily. It's been over a year since the blog was started, and in that time I've managed 100 posts (this is actually the 101st). The time in between has been quite a journey for me as a writer, doing multiple edits on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Flash Fiction&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":315,"url":"http:\/\/thefourpartland.com\/blog\/?p=315","url_meta":{"origin":389,"position":1},"title":"Joining the NaNos","date":"October 16, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"So, for the first time, I've decided to join up and try NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write 50k words in a month, from November 1st to the 30th. It should be rather fun, and a fair amount of work at the same time. 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And a new personal record\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Tarranau&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thefourpartland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/3483215862_d046bf12da.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":634,"url":"http:\/\/thefourpartland.com\/blog\/?p=634","url_meta":{"origin":389,"position":5},"title":"NaNo Comes Again","date":"October 31, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"It's that time of year again - November, when National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo or NaNo) becomes the focus of a great many writers. Including me. And I'll be working on Laeccan Waters, a name that might be a little bit familiar to people around these parts. 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