{"id":610,"date":"2010-07-16T20:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=610"},"modified":"2010-07-16T20:00:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T08:00:20","slug":"its-friday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/07\/16\/its-friday-3\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Friday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chchwritersfest.co.nz\/\">Christchurch Writers\u2019 Festival Programme<\/a><\/strong> was out today and I\u2019m in it!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be involved in two events, both on Friday 10 September: <strong>Hot Off the Press<\/strong> in the morning and <strong>Speed Date A Writer<\/strong>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookcouncil.org.nz\/\">NZ Book Council<\/a> event for school kids in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>This week has been somewhat mixed on the writing front, with a lot of interruptions and other commitments to be met, so I only managed 6078 new words for Part 3 of <strong><em>The Gathering of the Lost<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenlowe.info\/wallofnight.html\"><strong>(The Wall of Night, Part Two)<\/strong><\/a>. But it\u2019s good to feel that I\u2019m growing the manuscript and I hope to the word count by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">at least<\/span> 50% again next week. In fact, I\u2019ve set myself the writing challenge of finishing the first draft of Part 3 within the month, ie by 12 August, so I\u2019ll definitely have to both get writing and keep the words coming!<\/p>\n<p>So what reward do you think I should give myself if I meet the challenge? Just the reward of a job well done, or something more? I think it will have to be something special if it\u2019s to be an incentive\u2014but feel free to put forward ideas. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christchurch Writers\u2019 Festival Programme was out today and I\u2019m in it! I\u2019ll be involved in two events, both on Friday 10 September: Hot Off the Press in the morning and Speed Date A Writer, a NZ Book Council event for school kids in the afternoon. This week has been somewhat mixed on the writing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}