{"id":823,"date":"2003-10-14T02:44:14","date_gmt":"2003-10-14T02:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-823.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"abi-on-writing-mainstream-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2003\/10\/14\/abi-on-writing-mainstream-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Abi on writing mainstream fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been steeped in genre fiction (science fiction and mystery\/detective) for so long, that I got a little bit freaked out when I started thinking about plotting a &#8220;mainstream&#8221; novel.  Fortunately, Abi had the answer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You start by not killing one of the main characters.  Then you keep going until you don&#8217;t reveal who didn&#8217;t do it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Simple, really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been steeped in genre fiction (science fiction and mystery\/detective) for so long, that I got a little bit freaked out when I started thinking about plotting a &#8220;mainstream&#8221; novel.  Fortunately, Abi had the answer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You start by not killing one of the main characters.  Then you keep going until you don&#8217;t reveal who didn&#8217;t do it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Simple, really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}