{"id":3404,"date":"2014-12-01T16:34:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T16:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3404"},"modified":"2014-12-01T16:36:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T16:36:09","slug":"success-and-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/success-and-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Success and Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3405\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 158px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3405 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nano2014-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"Nano2014\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nano2014.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nano2014.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nano2014.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">DD&#8217;s a Winner!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have to take off my hat to DD, I really didn&#8217;t think she was going to do it. Just shy of 19k words, a target of 24k and 1 day left. I thought she&#8217;d get half way there and I&#8217;d be just as proud of her having done over 20k, but no, she plugged away (with plenty of additional prodding from me) and produced over 5k words\u00a0in one day! That&#8217;s\u00a0OVER\u00a0FIVE THOUSAND WORDS IN ONE DAY! (It needed writing out in full and in bold). I am seriously, but seriously impressed!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>See how impressed I am? I&#8217;m scattering exclamation marks around like a 10-year-old* with confetti !<\/p>\n<p><em>*My English teacher always maintained that excessive use of\u00a0exclamation marks was the preserve of\u00a0excitable 10-year-old girls.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Of course, <em>I&#8217;m<\/em> entirely convinced that it is all proper writing. Not, as DH suggested, lots of &#8220;la la la la la&#8221; to make up the numbers, or chapters cut and paste and presented as deja vu, just because there was a tablet at stake if she finished. After all, it was her own target.<\/p>\n<p>There is still a long way to go before she has a novel, though. NaNoWriMo has produced nine chapters, but there is plenty more writing and a lot of editing to do before the real finish line is reached. I&#8217;ve volunteered to help with the latter when she&#8217;s ready. She&#8217;s having a well-deserved rest today and plans to be back at it tomorrow, albeit at a less frenetic pace. Meanwhile, I&#8217;ll settle for basking in the warm glow of her success \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, all this parental puffery allows me to completely ignore my own failure at NaKniSweMo. I stalled at 40k stitches, which is still a tidy number and both front and back are completed and the sleeves started. Mind you, I have been busy with other stuff too, not to mention the odd bit of frogging having been required where I&#8217;ve not quite got the gauge conversion right or, in my haste, lost track of increases. Unlike NaNoWriMo, if you produce rubbish, you can&#8217;t leave it until later to sort out and continue regardless.<\/p>\n<p>Defensive? Moi? Move along, nothing more to see here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to take off my hat to DD, I really didn&#8217;t think she was going to do it. Just shy of 19k words, a target of 24k and 1 day left. 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