{"id":2723,"date":"2015-01-16T08:01:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T13:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=2723"},"modified":"2015-01-08T17:17:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T22:17:40","slug":"2015-the-year-we-take-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/2015-the-year-we-take-over\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 &#8211; The Year We Take Over"},"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\" \/>As promised, here is our grand scheme for the year ahead.<\/p>\n<p>This past week we sent out our first round of query letters for the infamous Science Novel. Perhaps we&#8217;ll get lucky and it will be our only round. If not, we&#8217;ll continue querying.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, we&#8217;ve begun brainstorming and outlining for Novel #6, aka Son of Music Novel. This very early stage in a novel&#8217;s lifecycle is one of our favorites. Everything is shiny and new, and the world is awash with possibilities. We&#8217;ve been able to escape the writing cave for the comfier confines of Writing Cave 2, which is located downstairs and has a fireplace and surround sound.<\/p>\n<p>Once we get this new beast tamed (ie, have a complete outline) we&#8217;ll write it. Since it is a sequel to the Music Novel, we&#8217;ll look for ways to tie the two strongly together. This might require small changes to the Music Novel, so we&#8217;ll take care of those as they come up.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we like to let a project rest for a while between steps, so that we can come back to it with fresh eyes. If that&#8217;s the case with the new novel, we&#8217;ll switch into editing mode on the Music Novel. Our critique group gave us good feedback and there are some changes we&#8217;d like to make. If the new novel does not require this refractory period, then Music Novel edits will happen after the first draft of its sequel is done.<\/p>\n<p>And then, if there&#8217;s any time left in the year after writing an entire novel and editing another, we&#8217;ll turn our attention to plotting out the sequel to the Science Novel, which will by then have been acquired by a major publisher. Fingers crossed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, here is our grand scheme for the year ahead. This past week we sent out our first round of query letters for the infamous Science Novel. Perhaps we&#8217;ll get lucky and it will be our only round. If not, we&#8217;ll continue querying. Meanwhile, we&#8217;ve begun brainstorming and outlining for Novel #6, aka Son [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,381],"tags":[289,290],"class_list":["post-2723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brainstorming-inspiration","category-marketing","tag-music-novel","tag-son-of-music-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723","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=2723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2724,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions\/2724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}