{"id":1012,"date":"2024-09-14T17:44:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T21:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2024-09-14T17:44:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T21:44:10","slug":"my-story-idea-is-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=1012","title":{"rendered":"My story idea is taken"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I started writing a story about a guy who has no magic in a world full of magic. I established his character, did a backstory,  family tree, a couple of descriptive scenes, and some notes on other characters and the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then my publisher gave me a novel to copy edit. About a guy with no magic in a world full of magic. And that author did a great job with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I took all my stories in that world and trashed them (put them in a folder).I did complain to a writer&#8217;s group that said &#8220;It&#8217;s your story, in your voice, write it.&#8221; No. I can&#8217;t be bothered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to reading. But this novel I&#8217;m copyediting is fantasy with hard to pronounce words, along with the stories that I&#8217;m reading. I started getting them confused with my job, so now I&#8217;m reading non-fiction and memoir as a brain cleanser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Double Kindle points on Friday, so I bought a ton of books that were $4.99 or less. I did buy three books for $14.99 that were new books, with hardcover only. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, back to square one in the writing sphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started writing a story about a guy who has no magic in a world full of magic. I established his character, did a backstory, family tree, a couple of descriptive scenes, and some notes on other characters and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=1012\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-methods-of-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions\/1013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}