{"id":7370,"date":"2020-08-14T21:02:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T01:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=7370"},"modified":"2020-08-14T21:02:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T01:02:09","slug":"that-frisson-of-excitement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/that-frisson-of-excitement\/","title":{"rendered":"That Frisson of Excitement"},"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\" \/>There are many reasons it&#8217;s great to write with a partner. We talk a lot on this blog about the practical benefits, but what&#8217;s really best about writing with the right partner? It&#8217;s fun!<\/p>\n<p>The Ghost Story is in a very preliminary stage right now, so it&#8217;s pretty much all brainstorming. It&#8217;s fun to make stuff up even when you do it alone, but having someone to respond to your ideas and raise suggestions that you&#8217;d never have thunk up makes it a lot more exciting.<\/p>\n<p>On a recent canine-mandated forced march around the village, we were developing Ghost Story ideas and Jen suggested something really cool involving minerals. Kent put a bit of a spin on it, which prompted a further modification back from Jen, and we went back and forth like that until we finished the lap.<\/p>\n<p>And it felt so <em>freakin&#8217;<\/em> awesome. Yeah, yeah &#8212; stronger ideas, teamwork, synergy &#8212; but the point of this installment isn&#8217;t that collaboration leads to better work. The point is that it makes work a lot more enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>The right writing partner is someone who makes you want to write more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many reasons it&#8217;s great to write with a partner. We talk a lot on this blog about the practical benefits, but what&#8217;s really best about writing with the right partner? It&#8217;s fun! The Ghost Story is in a very preliminary stage right now, so it&#8217;s pretty much all brainstorming. It&#8217;s fun to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,323],"tags":[519],"class_list":["post-7370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brainstorming-inspiration","category-plotting-outlines","tag-ghost-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370","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=7370"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7399,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370\/revisions\/7399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}