{"id":3614,"date":"2016-03-11T08:37:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T13:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=3614"},"modified":"2016-03-10T17:19:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T22:19:51","slug":"double-your-pleasure-double-your-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/double-your-pleasure-double-your-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"r-avatar\"Double your plotting?<\/p>\n

Sure, why not!<\/p>\n

The outline\u00a0for Son of Science Novel came together pretty well about a week ago. We don’t know all the details yet, but we have a complete through-line, beginning to end. The ending that we envision allows for this book to stand on its own while also throwing to the next book, Grandson of Science Novel, which will finish out the trilogy.<\/p>\n

In a fit of madness and\/or brilliance we decided to go ahead and plot out Grandson (Novel #8) before hammering out all of the details for Son. (The plot hammer is another tool in our writing kit, used in conjunction\u00a0with the goose wrench and the monkey wrench<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Our previous trilogy was not written this way. We were still learning what worked for us, and developing our process. Now, though, we are geniuses, and we’re ready to tackle anything.<\/p>\n

The advantage of getting into the final book before tightening everything up in the second is that we have the freedom to make adjustments all throughout the story. The downside is that too much freedom can be paralyzing. When you try to\u00a0keep too many options open it’s impossible\u00a0to hold the whole thing in your head. The plot threads\u00a0ramify and peter out in dead ends instead of\u00a0cascading smoothly through a flow chart\u00a0to a satisfying conclusion.<\/p>\n

In the week that we’ve been talking about Grandson, we’ve made a lot of progress. Almost all of the\u00a0characters will carry over from the previous two books, so very little work is needed on their backstories. That leaves us free to really tighten the screws and make their lives miserable. Fitting fates have been devised for almost everyone, much to their chagrin.<\/p>\n

Had we waited to outline this third book until the second was written (or even just thoroughly outlined) we would have felt constrained by what was on the page. Changes could be made, but would have meant a lot of wasted effort. So far we haven’t devised anything new that necessitates big changes in Son, but we have uncovered some thematic elements that will resonate more if we introduce them earlier, and we discovered the solution to a lingering question. In Son we had gotten as far as “there’s something wrong with this character’s process,” and by talking through Grandson we’ve decided what that “something” is.<\/p>\n

Will we write the two stories back-to-back? Doubling up on everything else (right down to the number of writers we are!) has worked in our favor, so it seems quite likely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Double your plotting? Sure, why not! The outline\u00a0for Son of Science Novel came together pretty well about a week ago. We don’t know all the details yet, but we have a complete through-line, beginning to end. The ending that we envision allows for this book to stand on its own while also throwing to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,323],"tags":[430,418],"class_list":["post-3614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brainstorming-inspiration","category-plotting-outlines","tag-grandson-of-science-novel","tag-son-of-science-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614","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=3614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3618,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions\/3618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}