{"id":325,"date":"2015-04-17T23:36:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T23:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=325"},"modified":"2015-04-17T23:36:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T23:36:07","slug":"thrilling-but-not-blood-curdling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=325","title":{"rendered":"Thrilling, But Not Blood-Curdling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-340\" src=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/outline-300x169.png\" alt=\"outline\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/outline-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/outline-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/outline.png 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>It is my sad lot to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=922\">pantser<\/a>.\u00a0 I bear up under it, mostly, but I do sometimes wish I was an outliner.\u00a0 Those anal-retentive buggers seem to have things easier in a lot of ways (nano notwithstanding).<\/p>\n<p>But my recent discovery of these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keeline.com\/Strat\/outlines\/\">outlines from the Stratemeyer syndicate<\/a> have been a revelation.\u00a0 All I need is an Edward Stratemeyer of my own, to provide me with sizzling outlines that I can fill out into bestselling novels.\u00a0 Preferably ones like those of the proposed &#8220;X-bar-X Boys series&#8221; that are thrilling, but not blood-curdling.\u00a0 I&#8217;d also like to be published in hard cover like the Hardy Boys books, so as to appear respectable to parents.\u00a0 Important consideration, that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is my sad lot to be a pantser.\u00a0 I bear up under it, mostly, but I do sometimes wish I was an outliner.\u00a0 Those anal-retentive buggers seem to have things easier in a lot of ways (nano notwithstanding). But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=325\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things","category-the-writing-biz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qgvH-5f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}