{"id":2160,"date":"2014-03-28T08:14:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T12:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2014-03-26T15:22:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T19:22:27","slug":"save-it-for-the-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/save-it-for-the-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Save It For the Sequel"},"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\" \/>As we&#8217;ve been editing the music novel (hacking our way through dense word jungles with a machete, burning whole scenes to the ground, etc) we keep finding ourselves in conversations about ways to complicate the story world.<\/p>\n<p>Believe me when I tell you that this particular story is complicated enough. We have eight point-of-view characters and a couple of subplots. The premise behind the story, the dark twist we&#8217;ve given our fictional reality, is one of those deceptively simple ideas. When it&#8217;s first explained it makes perfect sense, then you start to think of the implications and ramifications, and you drown in a tsunami of questions. That&#8217;s a good thing, because it gives us lots to write about. The characters get to ask those questions and propel the plot.<\/p>\n<p>The Big Idea of this novel is truly expansive, and we could write hundreds of stories set in this universe. The problem is that right now we&#8217;re only writing one. That means that we need to keep it focused on one main plot and not clutter things up with every little idea we have.<\/p>\n<p>As we mentioned, we do have plans for a sequel, so some of our Really Coolest Ideas\u2122 will end up being used there. As we keep reminding ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Before we started these edits we had a debate about which project we should work on. We almost brainstormed and outlined the sequel instead of diving in on the edits, and it&#8217;s a really good thing we didn&#8217;t. I think we both overestimated how well we remembered the events of this novel, for one thing. For another, the discussions we&#8217;re having now are sparking a ton of ideas for the followup that I&#8217;m not sure we would have come up with otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>We have a few more weeks of work to do on the music novel before we move on, but we&#8217;re both getting excited about the possibilities for Music Novel 2: Electric Boogaloo. It&#8217;s great to have a writing partner to share your enthusiasm with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve been editing the music novel (hacking our way through dense word jungles with a machete, burning whole scenes to the ground, etc) we keep finding ourselves in conversations about ways to complicate the story world. Believe me when I tell you that this particular story is complicated enough. We have eight point-of-view characters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[322],"tags":[289,290],"class_list":["post-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editing-revision","tag-music-novel","tag-son-of-music-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160","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=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}