{"id":2893,"date":"2015-05-08T08:25:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T12:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2015-05-07T22:30:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T02:30:03","slug":"son-of-music-novel-project-status-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/son-of-music-novel-project-status-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Son-of-Music-Novel Project Status Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"r-avatar\"We have officially turned the corner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jen has created three genuine stubs<\/a>, and Kent had a research deliverable that bears many of the hallmarks of a stub. Now that we’re pedaling again, the bicycle doesn’t seem so scary.<\/p>\n

Another thing we’ve done is watch movies. (For research, honest!) It’s been a mini-marathon of films that deal with combinations of elements\u00a0similar\u00a0to\u00a0what we’re concocting for the new novel. Our aim is to learn the landscape, so we can avoid this scenario:<\/p>\n

Rune Skelley: “So that’s our pitch!”
\nAgent: “A remake of _____? Not interested.”<\/p>\n

So far we haven’t seen anything that significantly resembles our story. Our ideas tend to be weird (although it’s more flattering to call them original), so there’s probably not a serious risk of overlapping too much with something that’s already out there. But saying we need to make sure lets\u00a0us thin out our Netflix queue and deny that it’s procrastination.<\/p>\n

If next Friday’s collaboration post consists of us screaming and pulling our hair out, you can blame Lars von Trier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have officially turned the corner. Jen has created three genuine stubs, and Kent had a research deliverable that bears many of the hallmarks of a stub. Now that we’re pedaling again, the bicycle doesn’t seem so scary. Another thing we’ve done is watch movies. (For research, honest!) It’s been a mini-marathon of films that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323],"tags":[398],"class_list":["post-2893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plotting-outlines","tag-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893","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=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2898,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions\/2898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}