{"id":508,"date":"2005-09-30T05:06:32","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T10:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=508"},"modified":"2005-09-26T15:07:29","modified_gmt":"2005-09-26T20:07:29","slug":"how-to-write-a-literary-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2005\/09\/30\/how-to-write-a-literary-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Write a &#8220;Literary&#8221; Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is funny to me.<br \/>\nThe daughter of a favorite author of mine has written <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/learnspeak.blogspot.com\/2005\/09\/how-to-write-good-literary-novel.html\">an entry in her blog about writing a &#8220;literary&#8221; novel that&#8217;s good enough to sell<\/a>.  Sadly, I&#8217;m afraid that she may well be right!<br \/>\nAccording to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.joecliffordfaust.com\/2005\/09\/how-to-write-good-literary-noveland.html\">the entry in her father&#8217;s blog<\/a>, this was inspired by the fact that she was forced to read a &#8220;literary&#8221; novel that didn&#8217;t agree with her mental digestion.  And, interestingly enough, the author himself got started in response to the statistic often quoted about authors getting a &#8220;mere&#8221; $2000 for their first novel.  Apparently, his thought was &#8220;For two grand, I could do something that bad. In fact, I think I could so something a little better.&#8221;  And, I can think of worse ways to get inspired.  After all, $2000 not bad, frankly, for a kid in high school with literary aspiration and some free time.<br \/>\nHmm, maybe <em>I<\/em> could do better, if I follow her formula and put out a little effort&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, maybe tomorrow.  Today, though, I revel in the fact that it&#8217;s Friday.   Enjoy the link!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is funny to me. The daughter of a favorite author of mine has written an entry in her blog about writing a &#8220;literary&#8221; novel that&#8217;s good enough to sell. Sadly, I&#8217;m afraid that she may well be right! According to the entry in her father&#8217;s blog, this was inspired by the fact that she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[20,19,37,36,16,27,35,33],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crass-commerce","category-criticism-marginalia-and-notes","category-exercises","category-famous-authors","category-fiction-and-its-kin","category-fun","category-ideas-and-suggestions","category-writing","tag-usd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}