{"id":2838,"date":"2015-07-12T04:27:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T04:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Writing-for-a-market-Damon-Knight-Creating-Short-Fiction"},"modified":"2015-07-12T04:27:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T04:27:43","slug":"writing-for-a-market-damon-knight-creating-short-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2015\/07\/12\/writing-for-a-market-damon-knight-creating-short-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing for a market (Damon Knight, Creating Short Fiction):"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Writing for a market (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\">Every market has invisible boundaries that they don&#8217;t announce. You need to know where those are, and write something fresh that falls inside them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The best way to know where the boundaries are is to read the market carefully. If you don&#8217;t like what they publish, don&#8217;t submit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don&#8217;t write what you think other people are interested in if it doesn&#8217;t interest you. Nobody will be fooled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You have to stand out as well as fit in. Editors don&#8217;t want the same thing they&#8217;ve already bought. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don&#8217;t write characters who are not interested in themselves, who are bored, apathetic, self-pitying and passive. If you don&#8217;t like the kinds of characters that are traditional for the market, write a variation on them; don&#8217;t show your dislike by having the characters hate themselves. <\/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>        Writing for a market (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-2838","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\/2838","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=2838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}