{"id":504,"date":"2009-12-13T23:44:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T05:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=504"},"modified":"2009-12-13T23:44:20","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T05:44:20","slug":"after-all-that-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"After All That&#8230;Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week was complicated by the dress rehearsal and performance of <em>Messiah<\/em>, followed by (perhaps predictably) a major migraine and then (not predictably) a gut bug.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So progress on the book last week was minimal.\u00a0 I can write nonfiction while somewhat feverish or with a migraine, but I can&#8217;t write fiction.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>However, today I was on the mend by midafternoon&#8211;I could feel the fiction-writing neurons coming back on line&#8211;blink, blink, blink, steady&#8211;and so I started in again and the pages have been flowing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Only about 1000 words, but compared to zilch&#8230;that&#8217;s good.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be set to start tomorrow with what should be a very satisfying battle.\u00a0\u00a0 The (mumble-mumble) are in a desperate situation so they will no doubt fight very fiercely; the (other mumble-mumble) are outnumbered but not incredibly so, and they&#8217;re also well-motivated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week was complicated by the dress rehearsal and performance of Messiah, followed by (perhaps predictably) a major migraine and then (not predictably) a gut bug.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So progress on the book last week was minimal.\u00a0 I can write nonfiction while somewhat feverish or with a migraine, but I can&#8217;t write fiction.\u00a0<\/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-504","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\/504"}],"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=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}