{"id":674,"date":"2007-11-06T21:53:23","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T01:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=674"},"modified":"2007-11-06T21:53:23","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T01:53:23","slug":"day-6-right-on-cue-i-feel-like-a-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2007\/11\/day-6-right-on-cue-i-feel-like-a-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 6: Right on cue, I feel like a hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s taking me about 40 minutes to get warmed up.  Not anything new or surprising.  I&#8217;m also starting to feel like a hack.  Right on cue my internal editor unleashes its claws and grips my neck, all the better to get access to my ear so it can whisper things like &#8220;You have 12,000 words worth of prologue.  Are you stupid?  That&#8217;s like George Lucas telling the entire first act of <em>Star Wars<\/em> in that bullshit &#8217;50s era crawl!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I had to kill a character today.  It made me miss my uncle.  No, writers don&#8217;t turn themselves inside out or anything, not at all.   <\/p>\n<p>Word count on the right.  Tomorrow: 2,000 more.  But at least Metro is obliging me with &#8220;minor delays&#8221; which let me get the most out of my morning commute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s taking me about 40 minutes to get warmed up. Not anything new or surprising. I&#8217;m also starting to feel like a hack. Right on cue my internal editor unleashes its claws and grips my neck, all the better to get access to my ear so it can whisper things like &#8220;You have 12,000 words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-copywrite","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}