{"id":1113,"date":"2013-04-26T08:48:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T12:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2013-12-31T00:36:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T05:36:53","slug":"we-are-the-peanut-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/we-are-the-peanut-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"We are the peanut gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-41\" alt=\"r-avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/r-avatar.png\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/><a title=\"Harry Couldn\u2019t Go Out There\" href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/harry-couldnt-go-out-there\/\">Wednesday&#8217;s 4 Elements prompt<\/a> became the epicenter of a strange little storm of collaboration in the comments. While it started with a simple (and blunt) observation, it ultimately became the transcript of a collaborative process in motion.<\/p>\n<p>Jen and Kent sometimes have similar conversations via e-mail. But most of the time, all the back-and-forth and brainstorming are done verbally, and only the final outcome is recorded anywhere. This time we captured the whole thing, silly as it is.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the kind of dynamic that makes writing with a partner so much fun. You can raise a concern, or ask a weird question, and there&#8217;s someone there to provide a response. Next time, it&#8217;ll probably be your turn to answer the weird question (probably with another question, even weirder).<\/p>\n<p>To get all serious for a minute, something that we all struggle with is critical distance. It&#8217;s very hard to be objective about your own writing, unless you step away from it for so long that you don&#8217;t recognize it when you come back. Having a partner can help with that. Of course, it relies on both of you being able to speak frankly.<\/p>\n<p>Kent now feels obligated to revisit that prompt and see if he can make it cohere this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday&#8217;s 4 Elements prompt became the epicenter of a strange little storm of collaboration in the comments. While it started with a simple (and blunt) observation, it ultimately became the transcript of a collaborative process in motion. Jen and Kent sometimes have similar conversations via e-mail. But most of the time, all the back-and-forth and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-as-a-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1118,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}