{"id":604,"date":"2010-10-26T20:35:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T01:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=604"},"modified":"2012-01-06T06:36:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T11:36:06","slug":"nanowrimo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=604","title":{"rendered":"NaNoWriMo"},"content":{"rendered":"

So NaNoWriMo — National Novel Writing Month — is coming up, also known as November<\/b>. I am not <\/em>attempting to write a novel this year, just like I haven’t any other year, because that is just crazy balls.<\/p>\n

I am trying to finish my thesis though, which is nearly as much writing (and harder writing at that, since it involves 4X as much reading <\/em>for references, etc.). <\/p>\n

It’s a daunting task, but today I seemed to pass through that psychological barrier where it goes from being this impossible wall to climb, this “oh my god, what did I get myself into, and how will I ever finish this?!” type thing, to being something that hey, I can do! There are still a lot of pieces to put together, but it’s starting to look like the pieces will <\/em>go together in the end, so I will finish it.<\/p>\n

…though I’m not going to get it done on time :( Once again I’m at risk of blowing through another deadline. My next milestone (or in the corporate parlance, “deliverable”) is set for this coming Monday, and I’m already 2 weeks behind, so somehow I’ve got to get 3 weeks worth of work done this week — and the planned timeline was a gruelling hellmarch pace to begin with! It makes me think it’s just not going to happen. Especially with Halloween festivities essentially making the prospect of any weekend productivity a non-starter. <\/p>\n

And of course, one doesn’t get two weeks behind on the timeline without facing up to the realization that maybe the timeline was a little aggressive\/optimistic in the first place.<\/p>\n

As much as I’d love to get things squared away for this term (and save nearly $2700 in tuition), just seeing that there is <\/em>an end in sight, that things are actually coming together, is a big relief, even if that end may still be half a year away yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So NaNoWriMo — National Novel Writing Month — is coming up, also known as November. I am not attempting to write a novel this year, just like I haven’t any other year, because that is just crazy balls. I am trying to finish my thesis though, which is nearly as much writing (and harder writing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}