{"id":6945,"date":"2016-09-06T11:38:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T18:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=6945"},"modified":"2016-09-06T11:40:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T18:40:07","slug":"you-may-wonder-why-the-word-count-inches-along-and-then-flies-toward-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/you-may-wonder-why-the-word-count-inches-along-and-then-flies-toward-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"You may wonder why the word count inches along and then flies toward the end&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I outline, not your typical school outline, but sometimes bits and pieces of conversation, events, notes, etc, which I erase as I move along, so the total word count both shrinks and expands unpredictibly, sometimes so that even I don&#8217;t have a real sense where I am. Stories take as many words as it takes to tell them, and while I have an idea how long a book should be, density also affects it. Now we&#8217;re down to almost no outline left, and things happening that were intended to happen, without more outline getting written. We&#8217;re getting fairly close to the end and I know what the end is, but this one has just worked out oddly, a story that&#8217;s going to answer some puzzles and give you others&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I outline, not your typical school outline, but sometimes bits and pieces of conversation, events, notes, etc, which I erase as I move along, so the total word count both shrinks and expands unpredictibly, sometimes so that even I don&#8217;t have a real sense where I am. Stories take as many words as it takes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6947,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions\/6947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}