{"id":3125,"date":"2007-02-01T12:03:37","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T12:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/too-much-progress.html"},"modified":"2007-02-01T12:03:37","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T12:03:37","slug":"too-much-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/too-much-progress.html","title":{"rendered":"Too much progress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot going on that I&#8217;ve not blogged on, mostly because I&#8217;m working on things. If you see the &quot;progress&quot; bar over there, you see that I&#8217;ve surpassed by initial estimated word count. That estimate was based on 14 chapters in my original outline, at 3000 words a chapter. Well, chapters have multiplied, and I have two more to go &#8211; really down to the wire here. I&#8217;ve no doubt in the major revision that will immediately follow the completion of this attempt (hopefully early next week) will strip the text down. But I&#8217;m at a point in this in which I am <em>very <\/em>interested in finishing it and revising it, not just from the standpoint of &quot;git &#8216;er done,&quot; (I wrote 3000 words over the past 24 hours)  but also from a craft standpoint. This is turning out to be really intriguing, and I&#8217;m actually psyched to go back, start over, in a way,&nbsp; and incorporate more of what I&#8217;ve learned about my characters and the major dynamics of the story, and see how it all pans out&#8230;and not quite as interested i blogging. Apologies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot going on that I&#8217;ve not blogged on, mostly because I&#8217;m working on things. If you see the &quot;progress&quot; bar over there, you see that I&#8217;ve surpassed by initial estimated word count. That estimate was based on 14 chapters in my original outline, at 3000 words a chapter. 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