{"id":8218,"date":"2021-11-05T18:50:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T22:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=8218"},"modified":"2021-11-05T18:50:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T22:50:52","slug":"it-tastes-like-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/it-tastes-like-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"It Tastes Like Victory"},"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\" \/>The plot rainbow for Ghost Book 4 is complete. And freakin&#8217; massive. Our whiteboard is 4&#8242; x 8&#8242;, and the rainbow covers the entire front and more than half the back. It&#8217;s really something.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8212; the entire Ghost Series is plotted. It feels great! It&#8217;s also intimidating because these novels are what we&#8217;re going to work on for the next few years. No pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, we&#8217;re still really psyched by the story we&#8217;ve specced out, even after spending 3\/4 of a year immersed in it. Before we can actually start the prose composition there are still a few steps we need to complete:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>photograph, number, document, and file the Book 4 rainbow<\/li>\n<li>watch a couple of movies for research<\/li>\n<li>review the Book 1 rainbow, and expand as necessary<\/li>\n<li>turn the rainbow into an outline<\/li>\n<li>finalize character and setting sketches<\/li>\n<li>write the first batch of stubs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then we&#8217;ll be ready to really start. With all our pre-work, the writing itself should go pretty smoothly. It&#8217;s a good thing we didn&#8217;t just jinx ourselves!<\/p>\n<p>A writing partner is someone who knows the proper counter-jinx techniques and rituals, and will perform them with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plot rainbow for Ghost Book 4 is complete. And freakin&#8217; massive. Our whiteboard is 4&#8242; x 8&#8242;, and the rainbow covers the entire front and more than half the back. It&#8217;s really something. So &#8212; the entire Ghost Series is plotted. It feels great! It&#8217;s also intimidating because these novels are what we&#8217;re going [&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":[519,286],"class_list":["post-8218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plotting-outlines","tag-ghost-novel","tag-rainbow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8218","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=8218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8219,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8218\/revisions\/8219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}