{"id":479,"date":"2007-10-12T08:20:50","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T12:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=479"},"modified":"2007-10-03T11:28:13","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T15:28:13","slug":"things-you-shouldnt-do-in-sff-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"Things You Shouldn&#8217;t Do in SF\/F Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>E.E. Knight, a self-described &#8220;pulp writer,&#8221; has compiled a list of blunders made by beginning authors.  Obviously, some of these are a matter of taste (Ray Bradbury has made a <EM>career<\/EM> out of #2), but they&#8217;re worth a look if you&#8217;re trying to get your fiction published.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><B>Strange days. Stranger names:<\/B> I get sf\/fantasy stories about orc-tribes where there&#8217;s Bolk, Gurg, and Fred. Which would be funny, I suppose, if it wasn&#8217;t a straight-faced quest fantasy. A name from our time can carry lots of associations with it, so don&#8217;t go calling your dark elf capital city San Diego or putting your ranger hero in lederhosen.<\/p>\n<p>Also, chances are they don&#8217;t celebrate Christmas on Planet Mongo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/eeknight.livejournal.com\/283350.html\">Link<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E.E. Knight, a self-described &#8220;pulp writer,&#8221; has compiled a list of blunders made by beginning authors. Obviously, some of these are a matter of taste (Ray Bradbury has made a career out of #2), but they&#8217;re worth a look if you&#8217;re trying to get your fiction published. Strange days. Stranger names: I get sf\/fantasy stories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}