{"id":696,"date":"2010-08-13T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2010\/08\/13\/the-duel-between-plot-and-wordcount\/"},"modified":"2010-08-13T07:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T07:10:00","slug":"the-duel-between-plot-and-wordcount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2010\/08\/13\/the-duel-between-plot-and-wordcount\/","title":{"rendered":"The Duel Between Plot and Wordcount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_sS4sIiNH6pg\/TGTwLpqDk9I\/AAAAAAAAAZ4\/YRtYWfyrYmw\/s1600\/Duel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_sS4sIiNH6pg\/TGTwLpqDk9I\/AAAAAAAAAZ4\/YRtYWfyrYmw\/s400\/Duel.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>The nemesis of plot is wordcount. Their epic enmity plagues all my stories. <\/p>\n<p>First, plot is ascendent, racing ahead, leaping, punching, kicking ass. <\/p>\n<p>Then wordcount pulls out the secret weapon &#8212; &#8220;You can&#8217;t get that published unless you get it past me! Two hundred and fifty thousand words? Are you mad? I spit in your face! Bwahahaha!&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Then the bloodletting <i>really<\/i> begins, what with the slashing and slicing, until plot has lost both arms, a leg, and occasionally a head. (Plot often has many heads, so sometimes this is a good thing.) Wordcount cackles, sure of the last laugh.<\/p>\n<p>But plot is not dead&#8230; bloody fingers rake the grass, dragging the torso forward&#8230;. Plot throws a hidden dagger, and wordcount topples over one hundred thousand words&#8230;. with more and more words gushing out all over the page all the time&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s ugly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nemesis of plot is wordcount. Their epic enmity plagues all my stories. First, plot is ascendent, racing ahead, leaping, punching, kicking ass. Then wordcount pulls out the secret weapon &#8212; &#8220;You can&#8217;t get that published unless you get it past me! Two hundred and fifty thousand words? Are you mad? I spit in your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","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=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}