{"id":375,"date":"2004-10-29T07:05:29","date_gmt":"2004-10-29T13:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=375"},"modified":"2004-10-29T07:05:29","modified_gmt":"2004-10-29T13:05:29","slug":"how-to-write-a-fantasy-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2004\/10\/29\/how-to-write-a-fantasy-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Write A Fantasy Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have guessed, this is not a serious article.<\/p>\n<p>Look, it&#8217;s Friday and nothing can be all that serious on a Friday, right?  Well, despite the fact that the article is called <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/members.ozemail.com.au\/~imcfadyen\/notthenet\/fantasy.htm\">How To Write a Best Selling Fantasy Novel<\/a>, it is NOT serious.  It is a joke.  But, it&#8217;s a good joke, so click on the link.<br \/>\nNow, if you&#8217;ve been around the writing game for a bit, especially in the fantasy end of things, you&#8217;ve seen jokes like this before.  For you, like me, it&#8217;s not a joke.  For anyone who wants to make a living in the crazy game of speculative fiction writing, this is deadly serious.  If I want to make it as a serious writer, I absolutely can NOT make any of the mistakes that are suggested in the article.  On the other hand, it is a handy guide for what NOT to do anymore.  Oh, for the good old days when that all still worked&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, no matter how you slice it, the article is worth reading.  And, after all, it <i>is<\/i> a Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have guessed, this is not a serious article. Look, it&#8217;s Friday and nothing can be all that serious on a Friday, right? Well, despite the fact that the article is called How To Write a Best Selling Fantasy Novel, it is NOT serious. It is a joke. But, it&#8217;s a good joke, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,16,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantastic-and-surreal","category-fiction-and-its-kin","category-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}