{"id":3217,"date":"2015-07-09T11:14:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T18:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/?p=3217"},"modified":"2015-07-09T11:14:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T18:14:42","slug":"recommended-for-writers-writing-monsters-by-philip-athans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2015\/07\/09\/recommended-for-writers-writing-monsters-by-philip-athans\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended for Writers: Writing Monsters by Philip Athans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1KQu0Gx\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3218 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Writing-Monsters-cover-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"Writing Monsters-cover\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>What are monsters? Why do we write about them, instead of about more &#8220;realistic&#8221; villains? And how can we write well about these terrible creatures?<\/p>\n<p>This book helps authors grapple with these questions. <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1KQu0Gx\" target=\"_blank\">Writing Monsters<\/a> gives examples from books and films; at archetypes of mythical monsters; at the &#8220;real&#8221; monsters of our world; at cryptids; and finally at cursed and dangerous things which, though inanimate, can be so threatening or personified that they play the role of monsters in our stories.<\/p>\n<p>The book also includes a Monster Creation Form to help the writer create his or her own unique horrors.<\/p>\n<p>Find\u00a0out more about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1KQu0Gx\" target=\"_blank\">Writing Monsters<\/a>\u00a0by Philip Athans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are monsters? Why do we write about them, instead of about more &#8220;realistic&#8221; villains? And how can we write well about these terrible creatures? This book helps authors grapple with these questions. Writing Monsters gives examples from books and films; at archetypes of mythical monsters; at the &#8220;real&#8221; monsters of our world; at cryptids; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,577],"tags":[622,657,674,696,719],"class_list":["post-3217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fantasy","category-writing","tag-dark-fantasy","tag-horror","tag-monsters","tag-recommended-for-writers","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}