{"id":6356,"date":"2007-11-14T17:52:33","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T23:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2007\/11\/14\/alternate_ending_for_my_book\/"},"modified":"2007-11-14T17:52:33","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T23:52:33","slug":"alternate_ending_for_my_book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2007\/11\/14\/alternate_ending_for_my_book\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternate Ending For My King Arthur Book!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Just last night<\/strong> my daughter gave me an alternative ending for my book.  I already had one plotted out, but there were various problems with it, and I was not convinced that it had enough twist or originality.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our discussion came out of reading James Scott Bell&#8217;s book &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Plot-Structure-Techniques-Exercises-Crafting\/dp\/158297294X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1195069540&amp;sr=1-1\">Plot &amp; Structure<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong> in the &#8220;Write Great Fiction&#8221; series.  This is a great book that I highly recommend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the sticking points<\/strong> in our conversation was that I had to explain to her that the King Arthur story constrained me at the end of this book.  She wanted to do all sorts of wild things at first but I had to bring her back to the legends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Once she started thinking within the bounds<\/strong> of the legends (and a few other constraints I laid on her&mdash;after all I wasn&#8217;t going to rewrite EVERYTHING!), she came up with a doozy of a book ending.  It has its own problems, but I think they are possibly easier to work out than the ones I already had.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not only was it a doozy<\/strong>, but I don&#8217;t think this has ever been done in Arthurian literature.  I already was taking a unique take on the legends, but this upped the ante significantly.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Onward!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Views: 14<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nJust last night my daughter gave me an alternative ending for my book. I already had one plotted out, but&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2007\/11\/14\/alternate_ending_for_my_book\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Alternate Ending For My King Arthur Book!&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,14,28,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-merlin-spiral","category-1-merlins-blade","category-on-writing-fiction","category-progress-reports","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67v0M-1Ew","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}