{"id":16532,"date":"2012-10-11T06:30:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T17:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=16532"},"modified":"2015-03-19T21:58:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T08:58:15","slug":"sf-signal-mind-meld-holding-out-for-a-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/10\/11\/sf-signal-mind-meld-holding-out-for-a-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Signal Mind Meld: &#8220;Holding Out For A Hero&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4879\" style=\"width: 192px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/04\/16\/why-write-epic-fantasy\/etching_keep-of-winds-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4879\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4879\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4879\" title=\"etching_keep-of-winds\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/etching_keep-of-winds-182x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/etching_keep-of-winds-182x300.jpg 182w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/etching_keep-of-winds-91x150.jpg 91w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/etching_keep-of-winds-622x1024.jpg 622w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/etching_keep-of-winds.jpg 1437w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Keep of Winds, from &#8220;The Heir of Night&#8221; &#8212; art by PJ Fitzpatrick<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently participating in a Mind Meld on <a href=\"http:\/\/sfsignal.com\/\">SF Signal<\/a> and the topic is:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;What makes a hero (or heroine) a hero instead of merely a protagonist? Is the idea of a straight up hero old fashioned or out of date in this day and age?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;meld&#8221; part comes in because SF Signal generally invites a range of speculative fiction writers to share their views&#8212;and needless to say, as a writer of epic-heroic Fantasy, this was a Meld in which I was delighted to have the opportunity to participate.<\/p>\n<p>Others who have joined in the Mind Meld include:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Emma Newman; Chaz Brenchley; Laura Resnick; Matt Forbeck; Jo Anderton; Chris Holm; Gini Koch; Chris Modselewski; Peter Orullian; Lee Battersby; Marianne de Pierres; David Tallerman; and Diana Pharoah Francis. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>To read the full Mind Meld and all the authors\u2019 contributions, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2012\/10\/mind-meld-holding-out-for-a-hero\/#more-63341\">Here<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently participating in a Mind Meld on SF Signal and the topic is: &#8220;What makes a hero (or heroine) a hero instead of merely a protagonist? Is the idea of a straight up hero old fashioned or out of date in this day and age?&#8221; The &#8220;meld&#8221; part comes in because SF Signal generally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sf-signal-guest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16532","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=16532"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28542,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16532\/revisions\/28542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}