{"id":9786,"date":"2023-12-01T12:18:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T17:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=9786"},"modified":"2023-12-01T12:18:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T17:18:28","slug":"with-both-hands-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/with-both-hands-and\/","title":{"rendered":"With Both Hands, And&#8230;"},"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\" \/>A map is a very handy thing for a writer. It can help you gauge how long someone&#8217;s journey would take, or remind you of the river between points A and B. If you&#8217;re using a real-world locale, then you&#8217;ll want to keep your depiction in line with reality. If your locale is your own invention, then you&#8217;ll want to keep your depiction internally consistent.<\/p>\n<p>Way back at the start of things for As-Yet-Untitled Ghost Novel #1, we created a map of the main setting, which is a place we made up. Over the course of actually writing that book, we annotated the map with a great many pencil marks showing adjustments and additions. It&#8217;s become sort of a mess.<\/p>\n<p>So, as part of our preparations for diving into prose on As-Yet-Untitled Ghost Novel #2, Kent is updating the map so we have a clean version to work from. The more we write about the place, the more we learn about it ourselves, so we assume we&#8217;ll need to do more map updates when we get to books 3 and 4 as well.<\/p>\n<p>A writing partner is someone who helps you keep your bearings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A map is a very handy thing for a writer. It can help you gauge how long someone&#8217;s journey would take, or remind you of the river between points A and B. If you&#8217;re using a real-world locale, then you&#8217;ll want to keep your depiction in line with reality. If your locale is your own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[317,527],"tags":[519,559,513],"class_list":["post-9786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-characters-setting","category-composition-progress","tag-ghost-novel","tag-as-yet-untitled-ghost-novel-2","tag-map"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786","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=9786"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9790,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786\/revisions\/9790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}