{"id":2836,"date":"2015-07-12T04:41:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T04:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/How-to-be-publishable-according-to-Damon-Knight-Creating-Short-Fiction"},"modified":"2015-07-12T04:41:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T04:41:25","slug":"how-to-be-publishable-according-to-damon-knight-creating-short-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2015\/07\/12\/how-to-be-publishable-according-to-damon-knight-creating-short-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"How to be publishable (according to Damon Knight, Creating Short Fiction):"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How to be publishable (according to Damon Knight, <em>Creating Short Fiction<\/em>): <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Editors look for a number of things, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; A sense of the transaction between the author and the reader. If you&#8217;re writing as if you have no readers, you&#8217;ll be right. Knight&#8217;s imaginary reader is someone who shares all his tastes but is a little smarter than him and knows more (so he has to be careful not to do anything stupid). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; A sense of form. The story needs a discernible shape. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; A command of language, including some knowledge of how to assemble words into phrases and sentences, and a good active vocabulary. [Also, I would add, some knowledge of how language is used to create fictional effects.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#shortfiction<\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        How to be publishable (according to Damon Knight, Creating Short Fiction):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[94,88],"class_list":["post-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-resources-and-craft","tag-mike-reeves-mcmillan","tag-shortfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}