{"id":4576,"date":"2017-01-27T19:04:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T00:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=4576"},"modified":"2017-01-27T19:04:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T00:04:30","slug":"seeking-new-worlds-to-conquer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/seeking-new-worlds-to-conquer\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking New Worlds to Conquer"},"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=\"\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/predicting-the-future-2017-edition\/\">As we mentioned a few weeks ago<\/a>,\u00a0soon all three of the story worlds we&#8217;ve been working in for the past mumbletysomething years will have their projects wrapped up. (Soon being a relative and imprecise term, qualities that recommend it for all kinds of occasions.) What then?<\/p>\n<p>Well, we have some thoughts on the subject. We like being prepared, so we&#8217;ve already discussed several possible settings and plots and themes in various permutations. There&#8217;s an idea that we particularly like, although it raises something of a challenge for us.<\/p>\n<p>To wit:\u00a0The concept we&#8217;re considering brings along some reader expectations, not all of which rest comfortably within\u00a0the Rune Skelley idiom*.<\/p>\n<p>There are infinite ways to break a given set of rules, such as those defining a literary tradition. Fine, we like having options. But there&#8217;s another, self-imposed, set of rules that we want to avoid breaking, those that\u00a0differentiate our fiction. We need to figure out\u00a0the Rune Skelley take on this type of story, so there&#8217;s no sudden tonal or stylistic shift in our oeuvre. It&#8217;s partly a branding thing, but mainly we want to write what makes us happy, what makes us feel proud.<\/p>\n<p>*Character-driven plots with a dark sense of humor, in superficially familiar settings that hide\u00a0supernatural and technological menace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we mentioned a few weeks ago,\u00a0soon all three of the story worlds we&#8217;ve been working in for the past mumbletysomething years will have their projects wrapped up. (Soon being a relative and imprecise term, qualities that recommend it for all kinds of occasions.) What then? Well, we have some thoughts on the subject. 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":[472],"class_list":["post-4576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bumps-bruises","category-plotting-outlines","tag-genre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576","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=4576"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4578,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576\/revisions\/4578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}