{"id":8203,"date":"2021-10-29T08:27:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T12:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=8203"},"modified":"2021-10-28T22:13:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T02:13:19","slug":"we-can-almost-taste-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/we-can-almost-taste-it\/","title":{"rendered":"We Can Almost Taste It"},"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\" \/>We&#8217;ve been plotting the Ghost Series for some time now &#8212; much longer than we realized, as it turns out. A quick tour through our Friday posts shows that we first mentioned the plot rainbow in mid-<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/why-even-bother-with-the-rainbow\/\">February<\/a> (!). That&#8217;s a full 8 months ago, and we&#8217;d already been hammering away at it before we told you about it.<\/p>\n<p>Today we&#8217;re pleased to say we&#8217;re allllmost done. A few weeks ago we targeted November 1 for packing up Book 4&#8217;s rainbow and moving on to the next stage in the process. We&#8217;re pretty confident we could have reached that deadline with ease if family trips and Primus concerts and family trips to Primus concerts hadn&#8217;t intruded. So we&#8217;ll just blame our children (and Les Claypool) and wrap it up as soon as we can. You can&#8217;t rush these things. Like a pregnancy, it takes as long as it takes, and &#8212; also like a pregnancy &#8212; that seems to be about 9 months. We&#8217;ll have the Writing Cave to ourselves again this weekend. With a roaring fire and enough Halloween chocolate we might actually reach our goal.<\/p>\n<p>A writing partner is someone who helps the time fly by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been plotting the Ghost Series for some time now &#8212; much longer than we realized, as it turns out. A quick tour through our Friday posts shows that we first mentioned the plot rainbow in mid-February (!). That&#8217;s a full 8 months ago, and we&#8217;d already been hammering away at it before we told [&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":[519],"class_list":["post-8203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plotting-outlines","tag-ghost-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203","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=8203"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8208,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203\/revisions\/8208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}