{"id":9578,"date":"2025-09-08T11:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/9578\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:19:07","slug":"author-kathryn-croft-writes-50000-word-novel-in-guildford-bookshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/9578\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Kathryn Croft writes 50,000-word novel in Guildford bookshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m an early person. I don&#8217;t work well in the afternoon,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I might normally do 500 words then have a break. This time I couldn&#8217;t, it was just 100% focus for eight hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I care about the words I write. I didn&#8217;t want to just write anything, so that was why I got behind. Fifty thousand for a first draft is pretty good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Normally I do 2,000 a day, so to do 80,000, I would have had to do 11,500 a day. I made 10,000 on Sunday and that was the most. I&#8217;ve learned that 2,000 words is a walk in the park.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The novel is due to be published in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;m an early person. I don&#8217;t work well in the afternoon,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I might normally do 500&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[489,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-9578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}