{"id":12759,"date":"2012-04-05T09:08:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T21:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=12759"},"modified":"2013-04-01T15:58:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T02:58:55","slug":"the-story-is-a-great-quote-from-ursula-le-guin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/04\/05\/the-story-is-a-great-quote-from-ursula-le-guin\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The story is &#8230;&#8221; A Great Quote From Ursula Le Guin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;The story is not in the plot but in the telling.&#8221; \u2013 Ursula K. Le Guin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I love this quote&#8212;and what better way to begin April 5, which is also UK release day for <em><strong>The Gathering of the Lost<\/strong><\/em> (yahoo!) than with a quote that so perfectly exemplifies my own feelings about story.<\/p>\n<p>(Although as Paul Mannering from SpecFicNZ observed on Twitter, given received wisdom, shouldn&#8217;t it be &#8220;in the showing&#8221; &#8212; he he, thanks Paul \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n<p>But no, entirely in the joy and love of the storytelling, in my humble opinion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of the UK launch, my launch post will go up at 12 noon here, just after the clock ticks over into April 5 in the UK&#8212;so watch this space for the celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Also, remember that a comment on any blog post dated April 5 will add a further entry of your name into draw to have a character in <strong><em>Daughter of Blood<\/em>, The Wall of Night Book Three<\/strong> named after <em>you<\/em> (yes: you!)&#8212; so comment at will! (You know I love to hear from you &#8220;anyways.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The story is not in the plot but in the telling.&#8221; \u2013 Ursula K. Le Guin I love this quote&#8212;and what better way to begin April 5, which is also UK release day for The Gathering of the Lost (yahoo!) than with a quote that so perfectly exemplifies my own feelings about story. (Although as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12759"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19865,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12759\/revisions\/19865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}