{"id":3651,"date":"2016-03-25T08:50:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T12:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=3651"},"modified":"2016-03-24T20:52:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T00:52:44","slug":"did-we-say-geniuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/did-we-say-geniuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Did We Say &#8220;Geniuses&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-41\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/r-avatar-e1443983880436.png\" alt=\"r-avatar\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>Work progresses slowly on the outline for Grandson of Science Novel. It&#8217;s probably no more sluggish than the corresponding stage of things for the book that precedes it, but the headwind is kind of killing our morale.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off the wrap-up of Son of Science Novel&#8217;s outline, we had a lot of momentum. Also, we were brimming with ideas for the third book because there was stuff &#8212; lots of stuff! &#8212; that was left deliciously untidy at the end of the second one. Thus we were counting on maintaining our momentum and having half the work already done.<\/p>\n<p>Er, yeah. No.<\/p>\n<p>The ideas are great, but what we&#8217;re discovering is they&#8217;re not the hard part. The stuff in between them, the connective tissue, that&#8217;s the challenge. We got ourselves persuaded that it wouldn&#8217;t feel like starting all over, but it does. Dammit.<\/p>\n<p>The advantages of having both books in a state of high plasticity are still valid. We&#8217;re still confident that working on them in tandem is the smart move. What we&#8217;re learning is that &#8220;time savings&#8221; probably isn&#8217;t among those advantages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work progresses slowly on the outline for Grandson of Science Novel. It&#8217;s probably no more sluggish than the corresponding stage of things for the book that precedes it, but the headwind is kind of killing our morale. Coming off the wrap-up of Son of Science Novel&#8217;s outline, we had a lot of momentum. Also, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,323],"tags":[430,434,418],"class_list":["post-3651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bumps-bruises","category-plotting-outlines","tag-grandson-of-science-novel","tag-momentum","tag-son-of-science-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651","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=3651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3652,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651\/revisions\/3652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}