{"id":9798,"date":"2023-12-08T11:09:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T16:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=9798"},"modified":"2023-12-09T11:24:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T16:24:02","slug":"getting-things-off-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/getting-things-off-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Things Off the Ground"},"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&#8217;re pleased to report that productivity in the Writing Cave has seen an uptick lately.<\/p>\n<p>As Kent&#8217;s retirement date drew near, we envisioned our novels flying to completion. All that writing time during the day! Plus an added bonus of getting to have evenings and weekends again!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9800 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/flying-novel-2-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/flying-novel-2-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/flying-novel-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/flying-novel-2-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/flying-novel-2-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/flying-novel-2-2048x1369.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The one part of the above that we achieved right away was the evenings and weekends. But, novels&#8217; wings don&#8217;t flap on their own. Regular readers already know that we&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/in-the-arctic-no-one-can-hear-you-not-writing\/\">struggled to stick to a schedule<\/a>, and that we had some ideas as to why that is. Well, now things appear to be on track, and we don&#8217;t really have much of a theory about why. Perhaps there&#8217;s a natural ebb and flow to our motivational energies. Perhaps we just needed this long to adapt to the new normal. Maybe we got brain frostbite in the Arctic and now we&#8217;re finally thawing out.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the reason, we like how it feels to be accomplishing stuff as a team.<\/p>\n<p>A writing partner is the wind under your wings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re pleased to report that productivity in the Writing Cave has seen an uptick lately. As Kent&#8217;s retirement date drew near, we envisioned our novels flying to completion. All that writing time during the day! Plus an added bonus of getting to have evenings and weekends again! The one part of the above that we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,527],"tags":[559],"class_list":["post-9798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bumps-bruises","category-composition-progress","tag-as-yet-untitled-ghost-novel-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9798","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=9798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9803,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9798\/revisions\/9803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}