{"id":3207,"date":"2024-07-01T10:18:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T09:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=3207"},"modified":"2024-07-01T10:18:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T09:18:37","slug":"review-how-not-to-write-a-novel-by-sandra-newman-and-howard-mittelmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-how-not-to-write-a-novel-by-sandra-newman-and-howard-mittelmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: How Not to Write a Novel, by Sandra Newman and Howard Mittelmark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A clever and witty book filled with examples of things NOT to do if you&#8217;re writing your first novel.  And while the authors insist that unlike other writing books, they are telling you about sure-fire ways to remain unpublished, actually they&#8217;re recycling ideas that others have already used.  One reviewer (on the book&#8217;s cover) called it &#8220;extremely funny&#8221;.  It was not extremely funny.  It was just cute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A clever and witty book filled with examples of things NOT to do if you&#8217;re writing your first novel. And while the authors insist that unlike other writing books, they are telling you about sure-fire&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3209,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions\/3209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}