{"id":171,"date":"2007-09-04T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2007-09-04T20:24:38","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T00:24:38","slug":"this-year-you-write-your-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"This Year You Write Your Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"146\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/waltermosley.jpg?resize=146%2C161\" alt=\"waltermosley.jpg\" height=\"161\" style=\"width: 146px; height: 161px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0316065412?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thekumalibrary&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0316065412\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ec1.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/21B7ZPPLWML._AA_SL160_.jpg\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thekumalibrary&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0316065412\" height=\"1\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: medium none\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aspiring writers should check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0316065412?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thekumalibrary&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0316065412\">This Year You Write Your Novel<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thekumalibrary&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0316065412\" height=\"1\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: medium none\" \/> by Walter Mosley.<\/p>\n<p>You can hear Mr. Mosley talk about this book and the writing life on NPR&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=9620861\">Talk Of The Nation<\/a>\u00a0or MPR&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2007\/04\/24\/mosley\/\">All Things Considered<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aspiring writers should check out This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley. You can hear Mr. Mosley talk about this book and the writing life on NPR&#8217;s Talk Of The Nation\u00a0or MPR&#8217;s All Things Considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMmJz-2L","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":447,"url":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/?p=447","url_meta":{"origin":171,"position":0},"title":"November is National Novel Writing Month","author":"","date":"October 22, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"From the What Is NaNoWriMo page: What: Writing one 50,000-word novel from scratch in a month's time. 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