{"id":895,"date":"2009-03-24T05:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T05:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2009\/03\/24\/parable-of-the-pedestal\/"},"modified":"2009-03-24T05:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T05:14:00","slug":"parable-of-the-pedestal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2009\/03\/24\/parable-of-the-pedestal\/","title":{"rendered":"Parable of the Pedestal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_sS4sIiNH6pg\/SchxkACz2JI\/AAAAAAAAAIw\/xxNqr-RLCVA\/s1600-h\/Pedestel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_sS4sIiNH6pg\/SchxkACz2JI\/AAAAAAAAAIw\/xxNqr-RLCVA\/s400\/Pedestel.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;ve done it again.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;ve put my story on a pedestal. A shiny, glowy Roman\u00a0column\u00a0of a pedestal, representing the\u00a0pinnacle\u00a0of literary grace, depth and passion. A place quite out of reach for a writer of my meager talents.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My story is too good for me. I don&#8217;t deserve it. I might as well give up on it now, because it&#8217;s obvious I will never earn the right to even shine the boots of my story. My story contains a glimmer of the empyrean, it tinkles with chimes from the music of the spheres. I, on the other hand, am an eyeless, earless\u00a0invertebrate\u00a0lacking any capacity to translate the transcendent notes of my story into a form comprehensible to normal mortals. I suck.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There is a solution. I will wait to write this story until I have mastered a style which is more complex, more mature.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the meantime, I will start another story, a B Class story, which is humbler, simpler, more appropriate for my lowly talents. I won&#8217;t aim high with this story, I won&#8217;t put Story B on a pedestal, I promise. I won&#8217;t even try to have it published. I&#8217;ll just write it for my own amusement, and for my own education. Story B will be my practice. It will train me to write Story A.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But Story B has hidden charms I didn&#8217;t see at first. I was too shallow; Story B is\u00a0exquisite. Story B deserves so much more than I realized. Story B should be polished and perfected, not simply shoved full of garbage and dumped at the curve like a plastic trash liner.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Story B deserves a pedestal too.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I can reach it. Just not yet. I&#8217;m not good enough.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Story C&#8230;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve done it again. I&#8217;ve put my story on a pedestal. A shiny, glowy Roman\u00a0column\u00a0of a pedestal, representing the\u00a0pinnacle\u00a0of literary grace, depth and passion. A place quite out of reach for a writer of my meager talents. My story is too good for me. I don&#8217;t deserve it. I might as well give up on [&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":[268,457],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isuckitis","category-self-sabotage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","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=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}