{"id":5671,"date":"2018-06-01T08:29:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T12:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=5671"},"modified":"2018-05-31T23:43:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T03:43:21","slug":"pop-that-champagne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/pop-that-champagne\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop That Champagne!"},"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\" \/>Hallelujah, it&#8217;s raining completed manuscripts. We beat our deadline for getting both Science Sequels done by the end of May! With a day to spare, and only a tiny bit of fudging. Kent even had time to mow the lawn. (Hey, we all celebrate in our own ways.)<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, though. There was celebrating, for real. Instead of champagne, we had milkshakes spiked with vodka. Far more appropriate, as our beta readers know. The rest of you will need to wait a bit to find out why.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re both very happy with how these first drafts have come together. Jen is even able to admit that the word counts are acceptable. Now it&#8217;s time to let them rest for a while and apply ourselves to a different project. It&#8217;s vital to get ourselves prepped to see things clearly when we return to do revisions, and working on an unrelated story is something we&#8217;ve found to be unbeatable for flushing the residue out of the ol&#8217; mental RAM circuits.<\/p>\n<p>Having a writing partner sometimes turns &#8220;we did it!&#8221; into date-night. Which is sorta nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hallelujah, it&#8217;s raining completed manuscripts. We beat our deadline for getting both Science Sequels done by the end of May! With a day to spare, and only a tiny bit of fudging. Kent even had time to mow the lawn. (Hey, we all celebrate in our own ways.) Seriously, though. There was celebrating, for real. [&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":[244],"class_list":["post-5671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-as-a-team","tag-celebration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671","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=5671"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5674,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions\/5674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}