{"id":6900,"date":"2019-11-22T08:40:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T13:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=6900"},"modified":"2019-12-15T14:43:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T19:43:22","slug":"our-days-are-numbered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/our-days-are-numbered\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Days are Numbered"},"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\" \/>Counting today there are 40 days left in this year.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Jen\u2019s diligent work on stubs, we now know we have to write 30 scenes to complete Sibling of Music Novel.<\/p>\n<p>With two of us writing, that\u2019s 15 each.<\/p>\n<p>December 31 makes an enticing deadline, but for our purposes it\u2019s totally arbitrary. Choosing that date just because it\u2019s at the end of the calendar is like deciding on your vacation destination because it\u2019s precisely 100 miles from your house.\u00a0In a perfect world we\u2019d knuckle down and finish this bad boy before the end of 2019, but we\u2019ve already accepted that this is an imperfect world and that\u2019s not likely to happen.\u00a0While it\u2019s a bit disappointing to know we\u2019re going to miss such a nice big obvious date, there\u2019s a lot of satisfaction in knowing how much work is left.<\/p>\n<p>In between painting the bedroom and wrangling the contractors we hired to do the projects involving finish carpentry and explosive gases, we kept plugging away at the novel. Kent concentrated on prose composition, and completed several scenes. Jen devoted herself to crafting stubs, and carried that project through to the end of the outline. The other night at quitting time, Kent had just finished his scene and was ready to decompress with a little TV. Jen only had one more stub to go. Since she had momentum, Kent just got out of her way and she finished in record time.<\/p>\n<p>15 scenes each. It\u2019s tempting to try to hit that arbitrary deadline.<\/p>\n<p>A writing partner is someone who helps you find the right balance between writing and real life. And who will clean all the bathrooms before the guests arrive for Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counting today there are 40 days left in this year. Thanks to Jen\u2019s diligent work on stubs, we now know we have to write 30 scenes to complete Sibling of Music Novel. With two of us writing, that\u2019s 15 each. December 31 makes an enticing deadline, but for our purposes it\u2019s totally arbitrary. Choosing that [&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],"tags":[484],"class_list":["post-6900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plotting-outlines","tag-sibling-of-music-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900","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=6900"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6903,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions\/6903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}