{"id":18503,"date":"2022-04-07T20:10:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T00:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=18503"},"modified":"2022-04-12T16:08:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T20:08:23","slug":"how-do-i-get-my-novel-off-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/04\/07\/how-do-i-get-my-novel-off-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I get my novel off the ground"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_7862.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"631\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_7862.jpg\" alt=\"How do I get my novel off the ground TAT It's so hard to weave the plot, setting, and characters together :\/\" class=\"wp-image-18499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_7862.jpg 640w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_7862-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_7862-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>How do I get my novel off the ground TAT It&#8217;s so hard to weave the plot, setting, and characters together :\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Novel writing is HARD! I mean, climbing multiple mountains hard. If you haven&#8217;t practiced first with short forms (the short story), I recommend you try that first. A helpful book for short-story writing: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, by George Saunders. https:\/\/bit.ly\/saunders-a-swim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novel writing is HARD! I mean, climbing multiple mountains hard. If you haven&#8217;t practiced first with short forms (the short story), I recommend you try that first. A helpful book for short-story writing: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, by George Saunders. https:\/\/bit.ly\/saunders-a-swim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18623,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18503\/revisions\/18623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}