{"id":1172,"date":"2005-10-27T14:15:24","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T22:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/10\/27\/finished\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:26:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:26:26","slug":"finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/10\/27\/finished\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am finished reading my friend&#8217;s manuscript. All I can say here is, &#8220;Wow.&#8221; I was impressed over and over by the deft plot, rich characters, and the way it all meshed. She has truly created an intricate alternate reality.<\/p>\n<p>One reason I don&#8217;t write fiction is that I am simply terrified and immobilized by the prospect of creating something from nothing. I&#8217;m intrigued by it, and I&#8217;m glad others do it, but real life feels full enough to write about. It takes enormous energy to write fiction, especially a novel. So this leads to the question: why in hell did I sign up for NaNoWriMo? I think it&#8217;s a &#8220;join the crowd&#8221; thing. I don&#8217;t have any plans, as yet, of writing. But trying counts, yes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am finished reading my friend&#8217;s manuscript. All I can say here is, &#8220;Wow.&#8221; I was impressed over and over by the deft plot, rich characters, and the way it all meshed. She has truly created an intricate alternate reality. One reason I don&#8217;t write fiction is that I am simply terrified and immobilized by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12471,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/12471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}