{"id":4462,"date":"2019-08-15T17:34:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T17:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/2019\/08\/15\/a-random-writing-thought\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T21:46:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T21:46:53","slug":"a-random-writing-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/?p=4462","title":{"rendered":"A random writing thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the big divides among novelists, in terms of procedure, is outlining. Some of us are hardcore outliners (that would be); others prefer just to make it up as they go.<\/p>\n<p>I suddenly find myself curious as to whether there&#8217;s any (rough) correlation between preferred style and manuscript length. For instance, do outliners tend to write shorter novels than non-outliners? (I&#8217;d guess that we do, on a very general level, but that&#8217;s just my gut speaking. I have no real evidence to that effect, other than the fact that two people known for their really long books&#8211;George Martin and Stephen King&#8211;have both stated that they do not outline. And of course there are going to be major exceptions; I&#8217;m wondering about tendencies, not hard-and-fast rules.)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really have the energy to write up a statistically viable survey about it, and of course it has no actual bearing on anything other than pure curiosity, but I do wonder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the big divides among novelists, in terms of procedure, is outlining. Some of us are hardcore outliners (that would be); others prefer just to make it up as they go. I suddenly find myself curious as to whether there&#8217;s any (rough) correlation between preferred style and manuscript length. For instance, do outliners tend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-old-news","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}