{"id":109,"date":"2007-05-20T06:40:47","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T10:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=109"},"modified":"2007-05-20T06:40:47","modified_gmt":"2007-05-20T10:40:47","slug":"make-it-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"Make it interesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.&#8221;  That&#8217;s Henry James in the &#8220;Art of Fiction.&#8221;  If your readers get to the bottom of the page and turn it, you&#8217;re in the game.  Don&#8217;t listen to complaints that you&#8217;ve violated this genre boundary or ignored some aesthetic principle or other.  It&#8217;s not a sport.  There&#8217;s no rulebook for fiction.  Conversely, no matter how well a piece of fiction captures your Original Vision or suits your (or your writing instructor&#8217;s) favorite program for Good Fiction or how damn smart you feel when you write it, if it&#8217;s <em>dull<\/em>, then Henry James and I humbly suggest revision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.&#8221; That&#8217;s Henry James in the &#8220;Art of Fiction.&#8221; If your readers get to the bottom of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=109\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-advice"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}