{"id":2370,"date":"2016-05-02T16:29:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T16:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/?p=2370"},"modified":"2016-05-02T16:29:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T16:29:54","slug":"lets-go-camping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/05\/lets-go-camping\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s go camping!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve never joined in a NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) before \u2014 it just never fitted it with what I was working on, and I didn\u2019t feel I could manage to write 50,000 words in a month. So each November the good ship NaNoWriMo went sailing past without me. But this year the moons aligned sufficiently for me to give Camp NaNoWriMo a go.<\/p>\n<p>What changed? The first difference was that I actually planned to start a new book anyway last month. I know some people just carry on with whatever project they\u2019re already working on, but I\u2019ve always liked the idea of having a NaNo project &#8211; something written from scratch in NaNo month. I finished my last epic fantasy at the end of March, and April was pencilled in for the second of my Regency romance series. It was planned to be 50,000 words, a perfect NaNo length.<\/p>\n<p>The other difference was that I\u2019m now writing fast enough to be confident of getting through that amount of writing in a month. Camp NaNo doesn\u2019t set a fixed writing target, but 50K seemed about right. At the moment, I\u2019m managing to write pretty much every day, and I\u2019m getting 2,000+ words down each day, so a 50K month seemed very doable.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2372\" src=\"http:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CNW_Winner_1500-1.jpg\" alt=\"CNW_Winner_1500-1\" width=\"1500\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CNW_Winner_1500-1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CNW_Winner_1500-1-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CNW_Winner_1500-1-768x284.jpg 768w, https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/CNW_Winner_1500-1-1024x379.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And\u2026 I made it! After starting on the 3rd April, I still managed to get 50,000 words down by the 27th. In fact, I wrote on, and the book is now finished, weighing in at 61K words, and written in just 28 days (an average of 2,200 words per day).<\/p>\n<p>So what\u2019s next? On to the next book, that\u2019s what. Regency 3, here we go\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve never joined in a NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) before \u2014 it just never fitted it with what I was working on, and I didn\u2019t feel I could manage to write 50,000 words in a month. So each November the good ship NaNoWriMo went sailing past without me. But this year the moons aligned sufficiently for me to give Camp NaNoWriMo a go. What changed? The first difference was that I actually planned to start a new book anyway last month. I know some people just carry on with whatever project they\u2019re already working on, but I\u2019ve always liked the idea of having a NaNo project &#8211; something written from scratch in NaNo month. I finished my last epic fantasy at the end of March, and April was pencilled in for the second of my Regency romance series. It was planned to be 50,000 words, a perfect NaNo length. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2374,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions\/2374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}