{"id":573,"date":"2020-12-01T01:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/?p=573"},"modified":"2020-12-01T00:34:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T00:34:30","slug":"my-2020-nanowrimo-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/2020\/12\/01\/my-2020-nanowrimo-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"My 2020 NaNoWriMo Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This year, I decided to try something new. During November (<strong>Na<\/strong>tional <strong>No<\/strong>vel <strong>Wri<\/strong>ting <strong>Mo<\/strong>nth), I wrote a story, or at least part of a story everyday. It was hard sometimes, but I had a great time working on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Usually, most writers aim to write around 1,500 words a day, but I decided to do a mini experience with 300 words per day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some NaNoWriMo experiences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lazy Days:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Some days, I had absolutely no idea what to write about. My advice for those days is to keep pushing on, maybe you&#8217;ll get an idea burst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Idea Bursts:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Idea Bursts are amazing. They basically are a whole cloud of ideas, so that you can write a ton of words for a while without stopping. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">No Story Arc:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>When I started this experience, I did not have a plan in mind. I started writing without a plot line and just built my story around my previous writing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Writing the Ending:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>One day, I had an (almost) lazy day. That&#8217;s when I decided to work on the ending. I couldn&#8217;t think of anything of write at the point I was at, so why not try to write an ending? I had a lot of fun with it, and it helped me get unstuck that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have written 11,573 words in total! I am going to edit my story in December, and I will definitely share some more of my experiences then! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, I decided to try something new. During November (National Novel Writing Month), I wrote a story, or at least part of a story everyday. It was hard sometimes, but I had a great time working on it. Usually, most writers aim to write around 1,500 words a day, but I decided to do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/2020\/12\/01\/my-2020-nanowrimo-experience\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My 2020 NaNoWriMo Experience&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,172,127,154,1,93],"tags":[228,296,295,11,260,292,293,297,294,298],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-imaginative","category-lists","category-reading","category-uncategorized","category-writing","tag-228","tag-idea-bursts","tag-lazy-days","tag-mint-girl","tag-mint-girl-writes","tag-nanowrimo","tag-national-novel-writing-month","tag-no-story-arc","tag-november","tag-the-ending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}