{"id":3577,"date":"2019-09-07T09:51:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T23:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greole.com\/blog\/?p=3577"},"modified":"2019-09-07T09:51:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T23:51:26","slug":"how-not-to-plot-dissecting-my-first-attempt-at-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/09\/07\/how-not-to-plot-dissecting-my-first-attempt-at-a-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"How not to plot &#8211; dissecting my first attempt at a novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv1940891438MsoNormal\">From 2013 to 2015 I wrote a science fiction \/ fantasy novel called Tempting in Shade. I sent it to Beta Readers who were very kind. Then I sat back and reread it. In doing so I came to several conclusions, the dominant one being that the novel was unpublishable. This post examines my decision from the perspective of four years later. It focuses upon how I mangled the plot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1940891438MsoNormal\">So why was Tempting in Shade unpublishable?<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1940891438MsoNormal\">I get the impression from my Beta Readers that writing style was good. One said that I wrote really great fight scenes. Another said she kept forgetting that she wasn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 2013 to 2015 I wrote a science fiction \/ fantasy novel called Tempting in Shade. I sent it to Beta Readers who were very kind. Then I sat back and reread it. In doing so I came to several conclusions, the dominant one being that the novel was unpublishable. This post examines my decision from the perspective of four years later. It focuses upon how I mangled the plot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[142,4],"series":[],"class_list":["entry","author-soulthief","post-3577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-shadytales","tag-fantasy-writing","tag-writing","clearfix"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cover-v3_0.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3577"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}