{"id":615,"date":"2014-03-13T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=615"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:39:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:39:30","slug":"a-toon-thursdayfirst-draft-blast-fro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"A Toon Thursday\/First Draft Blast from the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes…it’s that time of year again…the time where I am so snowed under (metaphorically, since I live in California) that I have to revisit an old favorite post instead of writing something original. But, since I’m sort of in the process of first-drafting, I thought I’d go back to one of my favorite Handy Pie Charts. So here you go:<\/p>\n

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\nIt’s interesting to look back on the original post<\/a>, because I referenced a problem manuscript I’d been working on during NaNoWriMo, and I’m almost positive that problem child was Underneath<\/i>–which is now, like, an actual book and everything. It just goes to show you: don’t abandon that first draft without giving it a fair shake–even if you feel like this when you’re working on it:<\/p>\n

[P]age 70 is where the misery strikes.
\nAll the initial excitement has drained away; you’ve begun to see all the
\n hideous problems you’ve set yourself; you are horribly aware of the
\nminute size of your own talent compared to the colossal proportions of
\nthe task you’ve undertaken. – Philip Pullman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes…it’s that time of year again…the time where I am so snowed under (metaphorically, since I live in California) that I have to revisit…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,77,10,52],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-toon-thursday","tag-views","tag-writing-daze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7970,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/7970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}