{"id":1395,"date":"2013-08-16T08:23:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T12:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2013-12-30T22:10:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T03:10:25","slug":"two-fisted-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/two-fisted-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-Fisted Writers"},"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\" \/>Lots of people read more than one book at a time, and now we seem to be flirting with the idea of writing more than one simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;ve been getting back into the swing of things with our nightly writing routine, which has felt like learning to ride a bike all over again, we&#8217;ve also been brainstorming plot ideas based around a really nifty bizarro premise that Jen came up with.<\/p>\n<p>There are certain traits we&#8217;ve identified as essential to the Rune Skelley brand, and Jen&#8217;s concept embodies some of them right out of the gate. It&#8217;s dark, for one thing. Character driven for another. But there&#8217;s a particular type of story world that we like to build, something that&#8217;s made all the more strange by its seeming familiarity. That&#8217;s where the brainstorming is focused right now, figuring out the setting and what&#8217;s freaky about it.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re thinking about handling it as a sequel to something we wrote last year. The themes resonate, and that story world&#8217;s mechanicals suggest a direction for a plot. So it&#8217;s promising, but we don&#8217;t want to get too locked into one view of how we might do things.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, we still have about half of the outline to get through in our current project, and there are a couple of other novel drafts awaiting our tender revisionist ministrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of people read more than one book at a time, and now we seem to be flirting with the idea of writing more than one simultaneously. While we&#8217;ve been getting back into the swing of things with our nightly writing routine, which has felt like learning to ride a bike all over again, we&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324],"tags":[290],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brainstorming-inspiration","tag-son-of-music-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","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=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}