{"id":1334,"date":"2011-09-24T13:09:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T19:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2011-09-24T13:09:40","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T19:09:40","slug":"another-milestone-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1334","title":{"rendered":"Another Milestone Passed…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned that since September 5, I’ve been involved in Terie Garrison’s “Great Invitational Word Race” again, in which writers of all experience levels set a goal and see how close they can come.\u00a0 Best part (besides being pushed to write every day) is that Terie found a cool counter with a horse and rider and racetrack, and we pick horse names and so on.\u00a0\u00a0 She makes the counter work with our reported words written, so you can see how your horse lines up with the others.\u00a0\u00a0 You can see it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Desert Orchid and I have been partners all along (he’s an old gray gelding instead of an old gray mare, but it still fits.)<\/p>\n

This time I had days of no production (traveling, sick, etc, including this past week) and we lost the lead we’d kept for several days…but today I had a really good writing day, making up what I hadn’t done this week: 3418 words.\u00a0 And that took me not only to within 889 words of my stated goal (20,000) but over 160,000.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I did not expect to get that far today.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I hope the quick recovery (in writing) from the days with none because of illness means the book is now moving the way a nearly-finished draft should…galloping to the finish like Desert Orchid at the Gold Cup.\u00a0 (I’ve seen the video of that race.\u00a0 Watched it over and over.\u00a0 AMAZING horse.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned that since September 5, I’ve been involved in Terie Garrison’s “Great Invitational Word Race” again, in which writers of all experience levels set a goal and see how close they can come.\u00a0 Best part (besides being pushed to write every day) is that Terie found a cool counter with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,5],"tags":[112,20,107],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","category-the-writing-life","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-progress-report","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1357,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}