{"id":115,"date":"2021-02-05T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huaiwarp.net\/?p=115"},"modified":"2024-07-10T11:56:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T15:56:56","slug":"feeling-down-and-over-whelmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huaiwarp.net\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Down and Over Whelmed\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well sports fans, I went up north and got only a small bit accomplished.&nbsp; Totally feeling like it was a waste of time.&nbsp; I did get about 20 pages written and modified the length of some chapters.&nbsp; I don\u2019t know.&nbsp; I am really feeling like I should just throw in the towel on this.&nbsp; It just doesn\u2019t feel right.&nbsp; I don\u2019t have the drive to complete this one, like I did the first one.&nbsp; The plot and story are sound but it\u2019s is a much slower pace than the first book and I am afraid that I will lose readers and fans.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first book was a labor of love and basically sprouted from the real-life plan to walk home 54 miles, rendezvous with my wife and get my kids in the event of a disaster that prevented me from using my vehicle.&nbsp; The story evolved from there.&nbsp; I alternated chapters which kept the reader engaged, this 2nd novel follows the main character and sprinkles in some alternate chapters.&nbsp; I\u2019m not sure that anyone would like it.&nbsp; I am on page 210 and almost 2\/3\u2019s of the way through.&nbsp; The action will be heating up from here on out and will end on a cliff hanger.&nbsp; Should I finish?&nbsp; Should I start over?&nbsp; Should I just quit and give up dreaming of being a novelist?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well sports fans, I went up north and got only a small bit accomplished.&nbsp; Totally feeling like it was a waste of time.&nbsp; I did get about 20 pages written and modified the length of some chapters.&nbsp; I don\u2019t know.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/huaiwarp.net\/?p=115\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-health"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huaiwarp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huaiwarp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huaiwarp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huaiwarp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huaiwarp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huaiwarp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/huaiwarp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huaiwarp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huaiwarp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huaiwarp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}