{"id":2265,"date":"2014-05-30T08:37:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T12:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2014-05-29T17:38:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T21:38:51","slug":"future-looks-bright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/future-looks-bright\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Looks Bright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-41\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/r-avatar.png\" alt=\"r-avatar\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>When you&#8217;re writing about the far future, you can get away with practically anything. But the shorter your jump forward in time, the trickier it is to portray. You&#8217;re on the hook to describe what&#8217;s happened with cars and phones, and offer some social commentary. And you have to do it all with a fine-bristle brush, no broad strokes allowed.<\/p>\n<p>We like to stir up a brew that closely matches what we encounter when we&#8217;re brave enough to venture forth from the writing cave. That is, the consensus reality of our characters is a close match for that of our readers.\u00a0We&#8217;ve delved a few decades into the past, and ventured sideways somewhat, but our novels have all avoided the future.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, though, that will have to change. The sequel to the music novel will concern a new generation of characters, and the plot sort of demands that they not be little kids. And wouldn&#8217;t you know it, that lands us squarely in the &#8220;trickier&#8221; kind of future.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it will feel like a natural step for us. Novel #5 was, after all, significantly harder sci-fi than anything else we&#8217;ve done. Working together we&#8217;ll create the future our characters must struggle in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re writing about the far future, you can get away with practically anything. But the shorter your jump forward in time, the trickier it is to portray. You&#8217;re on the hook to describe what&#8217;s happened with cars and phones, and offer some social commentary. And you have to do it all with a fine-bristle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,317],"tags":[289,290],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brainstorming-inspiration","category-characters-setting","tag-music-novel","tag-son-of-music-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","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=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2266,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions\/2266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}