{"id":9604,"date":"2023-09-15T11:57:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T15:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=9604"},"modified":"2023-09-15T11:57:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T15:57:03","slug":"ghostly-progress-book-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/ghostly-progress-book-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghostly Progress: Book Two"},"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\" \/>As-Yet-Untitled Ghost Novel #1 is in the hands of our beta readers. We have turned our attention to Also-Untitled Ghost Novel #2.<\/p>\n<p>Book One had rested for a few weeks, so we began with another read-thru of that installment. It was even better than we expected (not that we&#8217;re trying to influence our beta readers). Kent had been fretting over possible pacing issues in the first part, but it flowed very nicely. There are a few pages of heavier-than-necessary exposition here and there, but those will be easy to deal with. (To be clear, such infodumps are always Kent&#8217;s doing.) So, having made some notes, we moved on to the next step.<\/p>\n<p>Utilizing both whiteboards, we set up the rainbow for Book Two. Perusing it was quite entertaining, because Jen&#8217;s got quite a wit, but also a little surprising. There were some placeholder character names, and some plot beats that have been superseded now that we actually wrote Book One.<\/p>\n<p>We also have a long-form synopsis, which we usually refer to as the prose outline. That was created later, in parallel with the manuscript for Book One, so it should be up-to-date. Guess we&#8217;ll find out.<\/p>\n<p>A writing partner is someone to accompany you on a journey of (re)discovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As-Yet-Untitled Ghost Novel #1 is in the hands of our beta readers. We have turned our attention to Also-Untitled Ghost Novel #2. Book One had rested for a few weeks, so we began with another read-thru of that installment. It was even better than we expected (not that we&#8217;re trying to influence our beta readers). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[527],"tags":[519,559],"class_list":["post-9604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composition-progress","tag-ghost-novel","tag-as-yet-untitled-ghost-novel-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9604","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=9604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9605,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9604\/revisions\/9605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}