{"id":8263,"date":"2021-12-17T08:41:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T13:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=8263"},"modified":"2021-12-11T16:56:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T21:56:06","slug":"as-predicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/as-predicted\/","title":{"rendered":"As Predicted"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Way back in January we made a writing plan<\/a> for 2021. Let’s see how closely we followed it.<\/p>\n

In true oxymoronic fashion, we wanted to start by finishing something. Editing the Science Novels was handily done, so — Check!<\/p>\n

Next was plotting the Ghost Series, which gets another check.<\/p>\n

And here’s where things fall apart a little. We were a smidge optimistic when we made our plan, and thought we’d have enough time left in the year to start the actual writing. Hilariously, we left open the possibility that we’d need to decide what to do after we finished<\/em> the first Ghost Novel. Ha ha! Building four plot rainbows took longer than anticipated, and the actual composition hasn’t begun yet. But slow progress is still progress, and we’re very excited about what’s in store.<\/p>\n

One other item on our To Do list that still needs to be addressed: deciding what will come after the Ghost Books. Extremely preliminary discussions on that topic have begun. A good writing partner is someone you enjoy having discussions with, no matter how preliminary they might be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Way back in January we made a writing plan for 2021. Let’s see how closely we followed it. In true oxymoronic fashion, we wanted to start by finishing something. Editing the Science Novels was handily done, so — Check! Next was plotting the Ghost Series, which gets another check. And here’s where things fall apart […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,323,326],"tags":[519,286,288],"class_list":["post-8263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brainstorming-inspiration","category-plotting-outlines","category-writing-as-a-team","tag-ghost-novel","tag-rainbow","tag-science-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8263","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=8263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8314,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8263\/revisions\/8314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}