{"id":7352,"date":"2020-07-24T20:53:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T00:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=7352"},"modified":"2020-07-24T20:53:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T00:53:26","slug":"keeping-busy-keeping-sane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/keeping-busy-keeping-sane\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Busy, Keeping Sane"},"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 little too busy, sometimes. Not too sane, though. What would be the fun in that?<\/p>\n<p>Now that we&#8217;re done with edits on Son of Music Novel, we&#8217;re taking a quick swing through Sibling of Music Novel to take care of a few odds and ends. And in fact, there&#8217;s only one odd (or end?) remaining, which is to punch up the sensorium of the piece by adding smells. And that&#8217;s nearly done!<\/p>\n<p>Still using our nightly dog walks to develop the ideas for the Ghost story. World-building conversations in the dark in our quiet neighborhood, as Kent tries to keep his voice from carrying overmuch when he uses phrases containing words like &#8220;aphrodisiac.&#8221; So, yeah. That&#8217;s coming along nicely!<\/p>\n<p>Because it&#8217;s been forever since our writing group met, we&#8217;ve recently begun trying to round everybody up for a Zoom call. The cats are proving as difficult to herd as ever&#8230; Maybe the gang&#8217;s all burned out from too many online meetings already.<\/p>\n<p>We hope you&#8217;re keeping safe. (And not too busy, nor too sane.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little too busy, sometimes. Not too sane, though. What would be the fun in that? Now that we&#8217;re done with edits on Son of Music Novel, we&#8217;re taking a quick swing through Sibling of Music Novel to take care of a few odds and ends. And in fact, there&#8217;s only one odd (or end?) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[527,322],"tags":[484,290],"class_list":["post-7352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composition-progress","category-editing-revision","tag-sibling-of-music-novel","tag-son-of-music-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7352","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=7352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7355,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7352\/revisions\/7355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}