{"id":2034,"date":"2014-10-30T10:44:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T14:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2014-10-30T10:44:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T14:44:22","slug":"thursday-30-october-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/10\/30\/thursday-30-october-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, 30 October 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">10:44 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> Work on the prepping book continues. I haven&#8217;t posted any draft chapters to the <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.family-prepping.com\/listinfo.cgi\/tufpg-family-prepping.com\">mailing list<\/a> yet because I changed the way I&#8217;m doing things. Originally, I had 30+ chapters stubbed out and intended to post each of them as I finished the first draft.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">That turned out to sub-optimal because of the way I write, which I should have realized in the first place. Having 30+ chapter documents active makes it too hard to keep track of what I&#8217;m doing and where. The book will actually comprise three major sections: The First 30 Days, The First Year, and Long Term. So I now have only three documents, one for each of those sections, and I can jump around in each as I think of things I want to include. So the upshot is that things are currently a complete mess, and certainly not ready for anyone to look at. But this is the way all of my books have been this early in the process, and I should have known that this one would be no different.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">One thing I do need to do soon is run some of this draft material through Amazon&#8217;s CreateSpace formatter. If there are going to be problems with formatting, better I know now so that I can fix the problems early rather than waiting until the first draft is complete and having to reformat all of it.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10:44 &#8211; Work on the prepping book continues. I haven&#8217;t posted any draft chapters to the <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.family-prepping.com\/listinfo.cgi\/tufpg-family-prepping.com\">mailing list<\/a> yet because I changed the way I&#8217;m doing things. Originally, I had 30+ chapters stubbed out and intended to post each of them as I finished the first draft.\n<\/p>\n<p>That turned out to sub-optimal because of the way I write, which I should have realized in the first place. Having 30+ chapter documents active makes it too hard to keep track of what I&#8217;m doing and where.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/10\/30\/thursday-30-october-2014\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Thursday, 30 October 2014 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prepping","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}