{"id":3933,"date":"2016-07-29T08:37:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T12:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=3933"},"modified":"2017-01-03T12:48:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T17:48:40","slug":"spinning-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/spinning-plates\/","title":{"rendered":"Spinning Plates"},"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\" \/>Rune Skelley likes to focus on just one novel at a time. Having to keep track of multiple story worlds simultaneously makes it harder to do any of them justice. Harder, but hopefully not impossible, because we&#8217;re bending our own rule right now.<\/p>\n<p>Novel #1 (Miss Brandymoon&#8217;s Device) is getting a final round of line edits, while we&#8217;re also doing a read-through on the Science Novel in preparation for outlining the sequels. We&#8217;ve already <a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/taste-the-rainbow\/\">rainbowed<\/a> them, and now we need to really get that world under our nails to expand those rainbows into full-fledged outlines. The line editing is happening mostly by day, with evenings available for the read-through. It seems to be working pretty well, so far.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to all of that, we&#8217;re getting feedback from our beta readers on Son of Music Novel. That means we have to keep all three of our story worlds in our heads, to some extent.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and we&#8217;re doing cover mockups for our first trilogy. Shifting from verbal creative mode to pictorial creative mode is refreshing now and then, although there&#8217;s a lot of creative verbiage flying around the writing cave while we converge on a common vision for these covers.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, practical demands force you to spread yourself a little thin.\u00a0Having a writing partner means you can keep more plates spinning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rune Skelley likes to focus on just one novel at a time. Having to keep track of multiple story worlds simultaneously makes it harder to do any of them justice. Harder, but hopefully not impossible, because we&#8217;re bending our own rule right now. Novel #1 (Miss Brandymoon&#8217;s Device) is getting a final round of line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323,322,326],"tags":[327,430,446,290,418],"class_list":["post-3933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plotting-outlines","category-editing-revision","category-writing-as-a-team","tag-divided-man-series","tag-grandson-of-science-novel","tag-miss-brandymoons-device","tag-son-of-music-novel","tag-son-of-science-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933","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=3933"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4521,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions\/4521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}