{"id":4782,"date":"2016-08-24T22:45:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T03:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=4782"},"modified":"2016-08-24T22:45:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T03:45:19","slug":"for-you-literary-masochists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/08\/24\/for-you-literary-masochists\/","title":{"rendered":"For You Literary Masochists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fair warning: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3daynovel.com\" target=\"_blank\">3 Day Novel contest<\/a> is upon us, namely September 3-5. My Arts Editor &amp; I participated several years ago, and while we didn&#8217;t make the short list, we had both fun and some pain as we spent three days madly writing, rewriting, and (at least the AE) cursing the computer that ate a sex scene revision.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting experience because the rough ideas with which you plunge into the contest begin to refine, mutate, explode, reassemble &#8211; and generate people. Oh, sure, they&#8217;re characters in your story, but if you&#8217;re doing this right their voices start to echo in your head, asking you why you&#8217;re forcing decisions upon them with which they disagree, even haring off on adventures which you never planned.<\/p>\n<p>We do not plan to enter this year, we&#8217;ve been too busy to plan anything. Not that plans are all that necessary, but we (or at least I) don&#8217;t feel ready to devote three days to just writing.<\/p>\n<p>Although put that way, it&#8217;s a bit tempting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fair warning: The 3 Day Novel contest is upon us, namely September 3-5. My Arts Editor &amp; I participated several years ago, and while we didn&#8217;t make the short list, we had both fun and some pain as we spent three days madly writing, rewriting, and (at least the AE) \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/08\/24\/for-you-literary-masochists\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4783,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782\/revisions\/4783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}