{"id":815,"date":"2011-11-16T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T21:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/?p=815"},"modified":"2011-11-13T19:52:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T01:52:54","slug":"sticking-with-a-genre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/16\/sticking-with-a-genre\/","title":{"rendered":"Sticking with a genre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I wrote this book. It&#8217;s an urban fantasy. Most of what I like to write  and read is  secondary-world fantasy (I&#8217;m not going to split hairs between epic, heroic, and sword and sorcery). I had fun writing it&#8211;got to use a lot of stuff from my time at the newspaper&#8211;but.<\/p>\n<p>I keep thinking that if I sold it, the publisher would want more urban fantasy. And it&#8217;s not what I want to be writing, though I do have several other ideas to explore in that genre.<\/p>\n<p>So I think I might chalk it up as a fun first draft and not bother revising it.<\/p>\n<p>(Of course, this decision might be influenced by the fact that I&#8217;ve been revising a novel for a while and have a new novel that I really really really want to start writing because it will be awesome. It even has a title! Usually my stuff doesn&#8217;t have a title until I submit it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I wrote this book. It&#8217;s an urban fantasy. Most of what I like to write and read is secondary-world fantasy (I&#8217;m not going to split hairs between epic, heroic, and sword and sorcery). I had fun writing it&#8211;got to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/16\/sticking-with-a-genre\/\">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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","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\/815","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=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}