{"id":283,"date":"2014-08-21T18:12:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T23:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seth-swanson.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2014-08-21T18:12:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T23:12:23","slug":"august-the-month-of-where-i-guess-i-dont-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/21\/august-the-month-of-where-i-guess-i-dont-write\/","title":{"rendered":"August: The month of where I guess I don&#8217;t write"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Granted, its been a very mild summer, but August is still a helluva reason to keep inside. Which is good! I don&#8217;t write or code very well outside. Trust me, I&#8217;ve considered it, even tried it a time or two but it just doesn&#8217;t work out well. The glare on the iPad impairs writing, or the bugs are distracting, or the heat is soul-crushing. No no. I was made to be an indoor creature. Melding into my seat and becoming one with the machine. Beep boop beep.<\/p>\n<p>So, we&#8217;re 21 days into August now and I still have yet to put finger to keyboard in any sort of writing. While normally, this would constitute a soul-crushing failure on my part, its mostly because I&#8217;ve been pouring effort onto WordKeeperAlpha to get it done and out this month. The great news is that I should be able to do just that! The bad news is that every time I look at my writing graph I see THIS:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"th\" href=\"http:\/\/seth-swanson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/chart-2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/seth-swanson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/chart-2-300x200.png\" alt=\"Graph of no writing\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ugh&#8230; that flat line accuses me. It mocks me. Moreover, the characters from Impervious are bouncing around in my head, leading rebellions and killing each other every time I start listening to music. Once WordKeeper is out, I won&#8217;t be looking at it for a month. I&#8217;m going to set myself a nice big writing goal and go to town on it. \u00a0It&#8217;s about time to start gearing up for NaNaWriMo at any rate. \u00a0I&#8217;ve got a lot of words to write before the year is over, and I should be able to do that a lot easier with WordKeeper finished, or at least the base features done.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m cleaning up the remaining code and polishing things off, I&#8217;m also identifying the next set of features that I&#8217;ll be working on and rolling out over the coming months.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blog integration<\/li>\n<li>Rewards for completing goals<\/li>\n<li>Challenges (1k in an hour) (Don&#8217;t know how in the hell I&#8217;m going to do that one)<\/li>\n<li>Trophies and XP (for more gamification)<\/li>\n<li>Author pages so that you can share your progress<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen a few other projects that are doing some of the things that I&#8217;m doing, but no one is really focusing on motivation and word metrics like I am. \u00a0I really think that if I can get WordKeeper going and get it a following that I can keep it the best motivational tool for writers our there. \u00a0I suppose I have to make it that first, don&#8217;t I? \u00a0*sigh* Its back to work then, I guess. \u00a0At least, after a nice walk in this beautiful August weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Granted, its been a very mild summer, but August is still a helluva reason to keep inside. Which is good! I don&#8217;t write or code very well outside. Trust me, I&#8217;ve considered it, even tried it a time or two but it just doesn&#8217;t work out well. The glare on the iPad impairs writing, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10,11],"tags":[38,44,81,91,108],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impervious","category-wordkeeper","category-writing","tag-general","tag-impervious","tag-should-be-writing","tag-too-damn-busy","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}