{"id":4455,"date":"2016-12-09T08:02:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T13:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=4455"},"modified":"2016-12-08T21:25:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T02:25:55","slug":"russian-to-our-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/russian-to-our-assistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian To Our Assistance"},"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\" \/>While we&#8217;ve been writing Son of Science Novel, and even when we were still in the rainbows-and-outlines stages, we&#8217;ve also been learning Russian. Our interest in it is\u00a0primarily due to the numerous Russian characters in the book. It&#8217;s in English, but knowing what the stuff inside the characters&#8217; heads sounds like is quite useful.<\/p>\n<p>It does consume a certain number of hours in the writing cave, but we feel it&#8217;s time well spent. Studying a new language gives writers a better understanding (and maybe even a newfound appreciation) of\u00a0their native one.<\/p>\n<p>And the wordcount is happening. We&#8217;re closing in on 40k, which, as we mentioned last time is not as far along as we had hoped to be by now. But it&#8217;s not too shabby. Protagonists are imperiled, in ways they realize and in ways they don&#8217;t. Events are conspiring against them, as are villains in a variety of festive colors.<\/p>\n<p>Pro tip: when choosing a writing partner, you could do worse than the person you&#8217;d enjoy studying Russian with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;ve been writing Son of Science Novel, and even when we were still in the rainbows-and-outlines stages, we&#8217;ve also been learning Russian. Our interest in it is\u00a0primarily due to the numerous Russian characters in the book. It&#8217;s in English, but knowing what the stuff inside the characters&#8217; heads sounds like is quite useful. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326],"tags":[418],"class_list":["post-4455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-as-a-team","tag-son-of-science-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455","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=4455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4456,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions\/4456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}