{"id":2934,"date":"2015-05-15T08:29:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T12:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=2934"},"modified":"2015-05-14T13:44:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T17:44:07","slug":"its-a-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/its-a-process\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a Process"},"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\" \/>A few weeks ago we were struggling with getting the old fiction engine fired up. After a little bit of tinkering with various\u00a0wrenches (both <a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/knowing-which-wrench-to-use\/\">monkey<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tightening-up-the-geese\/\">goose<\/a>), and the\u00a0jumpstart of realizing we already had 11,000 words, we&#8217;re happy to announce that Son of Music Novel is spluttering to life. Our hands will stay greasy for the next little while as we make fine adjustments, but soon enough the chapters will come chugging out.<\/p>\n<p>Mechanic Jen finally remembered how this whole stub-manufacturing process works, and has begun\u00a0cranking them out. A <a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/our-method-for-world-domination\/\">stub<\/a>, as faithful readers know, is\u00a0a\u00a0sort of detailed\u00a0scene synopsis,\u00a0the step we use between the outline and the first draft. While Kent has been letting his imagination run free, composing prose like a boss, Jen has been wrestling with the outline. As we mentioned, it&#8217;s 26 pages long, and quite detailed. She needs to feed that, point by point, into the maw of the fiction machine, let it whir and grind\u00a0for a few minutes, and catch the proto-first draft nuggets that emerge from the other end.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2935\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fiction-machine.jpg\" alt=\"fiction-machine\" width=\"500\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fiction-machine.jpg 500w, https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fiction-machine-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As with every step in the process, the output becomes more refined. While toiling away, Jen has\u00a0discovered\u00a0that some of the points in the outline don&#8217;t really require an entire scene (which is a good thing since we don&#8217;t want this novel to be a billion words long). She&#8217;s found\u00a0ways to merge what were originally envisioned as multiple scenes into one \u00fcber\u00a0scene, and ways to distill the single pertinent fact or event from an otherwise superfluous scene for inclusion elsewhere. It&#8217;s really an extremely early form of editing, and it will save us hours of labor.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the fiction machine is running more smoothly and the fumes are being cleared from the writing cave, we expect Son of Music Novel to progress quickly. We&#8217;ll keep you posted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago we were struggling with getting the old fiction engine fired up. After a little bit of tinkering with various\u00a0wrenches (both monkey and goose), and the\u00a0jumpstart of realizing we already had 11,000 words, we&#8217;re happy to announce that Son of Music Novel is spluttering to life. Our hands will stay greasy for [&hellip;]<\/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":[290,225],"class_list":["post-2934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plotting-outlines","tag-son-of-music-novel","tag-stubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934","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=2934"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2940,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions\/2940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}