{"id":3174,"date":"2018-10-07T19:11:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T19:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Books-are-getting-longer"},"modified":"2018-10-07T19:11:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T19:11:28","slug":"books-are-getting-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/10\/07\/books-are-getting-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"Books are getting longer."},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Books are getting longer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wonder how much of that is down to ebooks, which weigh the same and cost the same to produce regardless of length? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know that as I gain more experience as a writer and take on more challenging stories, it takes me longer to tell them, but there&#8217;s also the phenomenon referred to in the article: highly successful authors don&#8217;t get edited down, even when they should. Partly because their fans will keep buying the books even if they&#8217;re bloated and overwritten. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(I am not a highly successful author, for the avoidance of doubt.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/culture\/books\/books-just-keep-getting-longer\/?inf_contact_key=1dc5df9160ed7ae7eabc40b4a7c6b628588443d56d5bb82e6018bd6c63133e4c<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Books are getting longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing-industry-and-business-of-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174","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=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}