{"id":291,"date":"2013-12-31T22:28:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T06:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/?p=291"},"modified":"2013-12-31T22:28:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T06:28:04","slug":"decembers-slow-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"December&#8217;s Slow March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted every day in October here, and I wrote tens of thousands of words. \u00a0In November, I hardly posted here at all, but I managed to get my writing goal accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>I managed to maintain the writing inertia into December, and I finished the Mel Walker story. \u00a0That was a week and a half ago.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been trying not to feel bad for slowing down. \u00a0I&#8217;ve hardly posted anything here, and I haven&#8217;t done any new writing since I finished the Mel Walker story. \u00a0I&#8217;ve done some editing on Unclaimed Goods (formerly known as Baggage), but that editing was mostly using a highlighter and a pen to capture proposed changes.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas did happen during this time, and I did take a trip to Southern California for work. \u00a0There was shopping, and work, and family, and work. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been busy, so I can cut myself a little slack.<\/p>\n<p>Now we&#8217;re at the end of the year, and the start of a new one. \u00a0Let&#8217;s count some blessings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have some success under my belt. \u00a0I know that I can finish a first draft of a novel. \u00a0This is huge.<\/li>\n<li>I have a couple of groups of people I meet with and share stories with. \u00a0These are really good people, that are talented. \u00a0They&#8217;ve given me feedback that I needed to hear, and they&#8217;ve tried to be gentle with me. \u00a0These are friends and peers, and I don&#8217;t have to feel alone in my solitary activity.<\/li>\n<li>I have a new technological device. \u00a0I received a Surface Pro 2 for Christmas, specifically so that I would have a device for writing as my old writing laptop has deteriorated.<\/li>\n<li>I have a family that is proud of me and supportive of my writing. \u00a0I couldn&#8217;t do this without their support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I think the first thing I&#8217;m going to do in 2014 is give myself a writing schedule. \u00a0It&#8217;s kind of like a New Year&#8217;s resolution. \u00a0It&#8217;ll be good for me. \u00a0I&#8217;m good at following rules, and if I don&#8217;t do something like this, I run the risk of going silent again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted every day in October here, and I wrote tens of thousands of words. \u00a0In November, I hardly posted here at all, but I managed to get my writing goal accomplished. I managed to maintain the writing inertia into December, and I finished the Mel Walker story. \u00a0That was a week and a half [&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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}