{"id":701,"date":"2011-03-30T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/?p=701"},"modified":"2011-03-28T07:54:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T12:54:48","slug":"missing-out-on-a-great-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/30\/missing-out-on-a-great-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing out on a great idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alas, I ran across this post from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/2011\/02\/whats-an-idea-worth\/#more-12840\">Writer Beware<\/a> too late&#8211;the auction has ended.  Some guy put <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;_trksid=p4340.l2557&#038;rt=nc&#038;nma=true&#038;item=220744269251&#038;si=2ZhayGWml%252BJH007fuHSg%252BrL718s%253D&#038;viewitem=\">his story idea up on ebay<\/a>, saying &#8220;It can be compared to stories like Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Matrix, Indiana Jones and other titles in those categories. &#8221; Sigh. I&#8217;ve missed my chance! But since the starting bid was $3,000,000 I couldn&#8217;t have afforded it anyway. Guess I&#8217;ll have to come up with my own ideas.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if it was a joke or if he really meant it. For those of you reading this who aren&#8217;t writers&#8211;ideas are cheap. Most of us have more than we can use in a lifetime. It&#8217;s turning them into good stories that&#8217;s the hard part, but that&#8217;s not something you can buy on ebay. <\/p>\n<p>(Unless you hire a ghostwriter and give them a very detailed outline, I suppose. But you&#8217;d still have to develop the outline.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alas, I ran across this post from Writer Beware too late&#8211;the auction has ended. Some guy put his story idea up on ebay, saying &#8220;It can be compared to stories like Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Matrix, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/30\/missing-out-on-a-great-idea\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}