{"id":285,"date":"2014-11-15T05:43:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T10:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/?p=285"},"modified":"2014-11-15T05:43:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T10:43:01","slug":"nanowrimo-update-nano-meetup-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"NaNoWriMo Update: NaNo Meetup &#038; Progress!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/photo-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-286\" src=\"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/photo-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"photo (2)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/photo-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/photo-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/photo-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/photo-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/photo-2.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night I met up with a half-dozen of my NaNoWriMo confederates at a well known coffee shop in my hometown. That&#8217;s three of them right there. Because I barely got them to agree to a picture (introverted writers!) I promised not to use their names. Organized by the <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/nanowrimo.org\/regions\/usa-connecticut-north\">USA: Connecticut: North Municipal<\/a> liaisons, this is the first one in my little town, apparently, even though the liaisons live here. One of them lives in the part of town in which I grew up. Actually, her apartment, from what she tells me, overlooks tmy childhood home.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Met some neat people, talked about the joys of procrastination, drank some coffee, and even ran into my brother who showed up for a cup of joe.<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t get much writing done, though. But even though I&#8217;m ten thousand words behind target, I should catch up next week when I visit my sister in the Denver area. She&#8217;s working on a NaNo novel too. While her husband is off to a gaming convention we plan on getting in some serious words.<\/p>\n<p>Now off to do some paid writing. Someone, after all, has to keep the lights on.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ffff;\">Arekan&#8217;s War<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When Arekan Mor&#8217;a&#8217;stan is annoyed, he is likely to do outrageous things, like try to retake the ancient throne lost by his ancestors three hundred years before.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ffff;\">Starting Word Count<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.critiquecircle.com\/wordmeter.asp?col=cyan&amp;curr=18328&amp;goal=80000&amp;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ffff;\">Current Word Count<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.critiquecircle.com\/wordmeter.asp?col=cyan&amp;curr=33474&amp;goal=80000&amp;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ffff;\">NaNoWriMo Word Count<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.critiquecircle.com\/wordmeter.asp?col=cyan&amp;curr=15146&amp;goal=50000&amp;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I met up with a half-dozen of my NaNoWriMo confederates at a well known coffee shop in my hometown. 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