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We here at SkelleyCo Amalgamated Fiction Enterprises are ready for 2020 to be over. So ready, in fact, that we’re starting our year-end review now, a couple of weeks early. Who’s with us?<\/p>\nWe here at SkelleyCo Amalgamated Fiction Enterprises are ready for 2020 to be over. So ready, in fact, that we’re starting our year-end review now, a couple of weeks early. Who’s with us?<\/p>\n
Remember the Beforetimes? When there were things worth celebrating? We started 2020 on quite a high note. Renovations wrapped up on the Auxiliary Writing Cave, complete with hidden bookshelf<\/a>. We wrapped up the first draft<\/a> of Sibling of Music Novel. We were planning a trip to Romania and Hungary. Things were looking so rosy.<\/p>\n We spent February rereading<\/a> our Music Series, and practicing the mystical art<\/a> of placing chapter breaks and perfecting pacing.<\/p>\n In March we lamented<\/a> our missed vacation (spoiler alert: still on hold), explored how many reminders<\/a> readers need versus how many they appreciate, and debated the difference between villains and monsters<\/a>. In 2020, Covid is the main monster. There are many, many villains.<\/p>\n By April we’d started actually editing the third Music Novel, the biggest bad boy who ever bad-boyed. First we made it bigger<\/a>, then we made it smaller<\/a>. It was a whole thing, and we got quite philosophical<\/a> about the whole process.<\/p>\n May brought more editing<\/a>, and a cryptically described disagreement<\/a> between the two of us. So cryptic that we don’t actually recall what we were at loggerheads over. Which is a good sign for our partnership, both marriage-wise and coauthor-wise.<\/p>\n No summer vacation for us! In June we just took innumerable walks around the neighborhood with the dogs, using the time to dig into our next project<\/a>. It has the incredibly creative working title “Ghost Series<\/a>.” You’ll never guess what it’s about.<\/p>\n By July, we were done with both Son of Music Novel<\/a>, and the minor touchups we wanted to give Sibling of Music Novel<\/a>. And we watched Hamilton<\/a>.<\/p>\n The rereading and editing of the Science Novels started in August. Kent’s voice got quite a workout, because when we wasn’t reading the trilogy aloud<\/a>, we were still talking about the Ghost Series<\/a> on our daily walks. We wrapped up the month discussing how much of a character’s backstory<\/a> an author should know.<\/p>\n It seems we didn’t have a lot to say about editing the second Science Novel in September, because all of our posts are about how excited we are about brainstorming<\/a> the Ghost Series<\/a>. We did spare a few minutes to talk about the joys and wonders of a good Goose Wrench<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fittingly, October was also a time to talk about our ghosts<\/a>. We even had a spooky encounter <\/a>on one of our nighttime walks. We updated our writing prompt generator<\/a>, and dealt with a minor case of burnout<\/a>.<\/p>\n November had Jen finishing her edits on Son of Science Novel and starting in on Grandson<\/a>. Kent followed not too far behind. We had Quarantine Thanksgiving without our kids, and engaged in a little bit of self-promotion<\/a>.<\/p>\n Which brings us up to the present day. Kent is getting his geek on, drawing a cutaway view of a major setting in Son of Science Novel (standard floor plans are for chumps!), while he lets Jen get a little further ahead in her edits of Grandson. He’ll soon have to put his shiny toys away and pick up his flensing tools.<\/p>\n Looking back over this past year, we were surprised to see nary an update to our chain story’s Dramatis Personae, so look for that sometime soonish.<\/p>\n 2020 was certainly not the year we wanted it to be, but it wasn’t all bad. Even spending all day together every day since mid-February, Kent and Jen still actively enjoy each other’s company. May you be as lucky in your choice of spouse and\/or writing partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We here at SkelleyCo Amalgamated Fiction Enterprises are ready for 2020 to be over. 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