{"id":196,"date":"2010-11-15T13:23:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T10:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.helsinki.fi\/kaislani\/?p=196"},"modified":"2019-04-09T13:43:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T13:43:07","slug":"nathewrimo-day-15-pep-talk-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/2010\/11\/15\/nathewrimo-day-15-pep-talk-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"NaTheWriMo Day 15: Pep talk needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/node\/1065561\">This<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\">Neil&#8217;s<\/a> pep talk to NaNoWriMoists. He&#8217;s right, of course. A journey of 50,000 words may start with a small step, but the point is that <em>every<\/em> step along the way is a small one: one little word at a time. Which is a relief of sorts.<\/p>\n<p>My word count, while quite a lot better than 0, is not anything to break out the champagne for, alas. But one word at a time does it.<\/p>\n<p>So: focus. Breathe. Head down; type, type type. Blink. Take a walk. Stretch. Start typing again to get that thought down before it&#8217;s gone. Type, type, type.<\/p>\n<p>The following image seems appropriate (I wish I could remember where I found this, years back, so I could give the creator due credit):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-662\" src=\"http:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/working-for-lawyers.gif\" alt=\"working for lawyers\" width=\"150\" height=\"107\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<table style=\"border: solid 1px; font-size: 10px; padding: 5px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: 5px;\">\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>NaTheWriMo November 2010<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nathewrimothesisfrenzy.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/welcome-to-nathewrimo.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-665\" src=\"http:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/wrimo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<table style=\"border: solid 1px; padding: 5px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>Day:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>Word count:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>2,775<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>Transcription word count:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>20,400<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>Blog entries:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Neil&#8217;s pep talk to NaNoWriMoists. He&#8217;s right, of course. A journey of 50,000 words may start with a small step, but the point is that every step along the way is a small one: one little word at a time. Which is a relief of sorts. My word count, while quite a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15,44,48,62],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phd","tag-argh","tag-nathewrimo","tag-phd","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}