{"id":1416,"date":"2013-09-06T08:05:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T12:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2013-12-30T22:30:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T03:30:33","slug":"tables-turned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tables-turned\/","title":{"rendered":"Tables Turned"},"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\" \/>In the middle part of the writing of this novel, Jen was feeling a little disconnected from the subject matter. As we&#8217;ve mentioned before, this one&#8217;s more hard science fiction than the others have been, and the hard scifi is Kent&#8217;s bailiwick. That left the majority of the writing for him while Jen cheered from the sidelines (she did find ways to keep herself useful).<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re over that hump (and past the 100,000 word mark), closing in on the ending, and a lot of the technical stuff has been written. We&#8217;re into the emotional fallout section, where our characters are dealing (or failing to deal) with the repercussions of all that crazy science stuff, and suddenly Kent is the one feeling a little lost.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that he got so invested in the research, and the writing of the technical stuff, that he lost touch a bit with the emotional life of the characters.<\/p>\n<p>If he were writing this book alone, that would be a cause for major concern, just as Jen would have been floundering to write the earlier part on her own. But since we work as a team, we cover for each other and it all comes together beautifully.<\/p>\n<p>Collaborating with a writing partner can allow you to explore a genre and tell a story that you would struggle with on your own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle part of the writing of this novel, Jen was feeling a little disconnected from the subject matter. As we&#8217;ve mentioned before, this one&#8217;s more hard science fiction than the others have been, and the hard scifi is Kent&#8217;s bailiwick. That left the majority of the writing for him while Jen cheered from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,326],"tags":[288],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bumps-bruises","category-writing-as-a-team","tag-science-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","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=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}