{"id":915,"date":"2010-03-14T11:33:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T19:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=915"},"modified":"2010-03-14T11:33:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T19:33:15","slug":"how-to-write-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/how-to-write-a-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Write A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Words of wisdom from Nic Alderton<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Words of wisdom from Nic Alderton:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfx3-eL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2088,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/lx-origin-story-part-i\/","url_meta":{"origin":915,"position":0},"title":"LX Origin Story, Part I","author":"LBDG","date":"April 28, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Before I dive into chapter by chapter, song by song commentary for L Extreme I wanted to provide a little background on how this came to be. 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