{"id":275,"date":"2008-11-20T03:04:43","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T10:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/?p=275"},"modified":"2008-11-24T10:18:07","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T17:18:07","slug":"nano-08-day-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/20\/nano-08-day-20\/","title":{"rendered":"NaNo 08 &#8211; Day 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m not exactly sure what happened to me tonight (this morning).<\/p>\n<p>I sat down after the 11:00 news to do a &quot;bit&quot; of writing before bed.&nbsp; It&#39;s now past 3:00am, and it all feels like it happened in the blink of an eye.<\/p>\n<p>Writers dream of this. To get into that zone where only you and the page exist (or screen, as the case may be). 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