{"id":27421,"date":"2014-11-30T06:30:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T17:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=27421"},"modified":"2014-11-25T22:40:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T09:40:23","slug":"some-random-blog-posts-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/11\/30\/some-random-blog-posts-of-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Random Blog Posts Of Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found the following blog posts of interest over recent weeks, so decided to share the links&#8212;sort of like reading the weekend papers. \ud83d\ude09 Just click on the embedded links to read more:<\/p>\n<p>Pulitzer prize finalist Lydia Millet shared <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/industry-news\/tip-sheet\/article\/64729-5-writing-tips-lydia-millet.html\" target=\"_blank\">Five Writing Tips <\/a>on Publisher&#8217;s Weekly&#8212;which I thought were interesting, even if trying for quantity over quality stymied me completely when beginning writing <strong><em>Daughter Of Blood<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd Lofthouse reflected on how ebooks require a changed approach to <a href=\"http:\/\/lloydlofthouse.org\/2013\/12\/15\/discover-how-amazon-changed-book-cover-design-and-why-authors-need-to-pay-attention\/\" target=\"_blank\">book cover design<\/a> &#8212; again, interesting reading.<\/p>\n<p>Gabe Bergado on Arts.Mic reckons that <a href=\"http:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/104702\/science-shows-something-surprising-about-people-who-love-reading-fiction\" target=\"_blank\">Science Shows Something Surprising About People Who Still Read Fiction<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And for something outside the literary square, a thoughtful and thought-provoking post from Cameron Conaway on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stirjournal.com\/2014\/11\/17\/2014-the-year-we-put-just-in-front-of-malaria\/\" target=\"_blank\">2014: The Year We Put &#8220;Just&#8221; In Front Of Malaria<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found the following blog posts of interest over recent weeks, so decided to share the links&#8212;sort of like reading the weekend papers. \ud83d\ude09 Just click on the embedded links to read more: Pulitzer prize finalist Lydia Millet shared Five Writing Tips on Publisher&#8217;s Weekly&#8212;which I thought were interesting, even if trying for quantity over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27421","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=27421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27423,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27421\/revisions\/27423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}