{"id":9593,"date":"2023-07-28T08:32:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T12:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=9593"},"modified":"2023-07-23T19:58:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T23:58:49","slug":"mostly-not-failing-to-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/mostly-not-failing-to-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Mostly Not Failing to Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-41\" src=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/r-avatar-e1443983880436.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>We did it! Or rather, Jen did it! The fourth and final book in the Ghost Series is fully synopsized (mostly). It has a beginning, a whole lotta middle, and an end that almost completely holds together if you don&#8217;t look at it too closely. We know the broad strokes, and that&#8217;s good enough for now.<\/p>\n<p>You know how the weather forecast for tomorrow is a lot more reliable than the forecast for next Friday? It&#8217;s kind of like that. Some of the details toward the end are fuzzy, but it&#8217;s so far away it doesn&#8217;t really matter. By the time we get there we&#8217;ll have plenty of time to sharpen it up.<\/p>\n<p>Vague as some of the details are, As-Yet-Untitled Ghost Novel #4 is shaping up to be a beast. The synopsis is 27 pages long, nearly twice what #3 came in at. We&#8217;ve started to wonder if maybe we&#8217;re dealing with a pentalogy instead of a quadrilogy. It could be that it&#8217;s too much story for one book, or it could just be that we gave a lot of thought to the ending, so we know more about it. Time will tell.<\/p>\n<p>All together the 4 synopses are 40,000 words. That&#8217;s 75 single-spaced pages. It&#8217;s tempting to slap it into one file and call it a novella.<\/p>\n<p>A writing partner is someone who doesn&#8217;t let you take the easy way out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We did it! Or rather, Jen did it! The fourth and final book in the Ghost Series is fully synopsized (mostly). It has a beginning, a whole lotta middle, and an end that almost completely holds together if you don&#8217;t look at it too closely. We know the broad strokes, and that&#8217;s good enough for [&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":[562,560],"class_list":["post-9593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plotting-outlines","tag-as-yet-untitled-ghost-novel-4","tag-ghost-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9593","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=9593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9594,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9593\/revisions\/9594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}