{"id":31597,"date":"2017-09-08T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=31597"},"modified":"2017-08-28T09:13:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T13:13:15","slug":"qotd-never-ask-where-writers-get-their-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/09\/08\/qotd-never-ask-where-writers-get-their-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Never ask where writers get their inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>My Dark Age adventure, <em>Shieldwall: Barbarians!<\/em> is Young Adult, meaning, in this case, Sharpe or Conan but without the shagging, and with slightly more moral compass &mdash; really you can read it as being &#8220;in the tradition of&#8221; Harold Lamb and the Pulpmeisters of Yore and ignore the YA tag. When I wrote it, I had in my head &#8220;Robert E Howard does Rosemary Sutcliff (but not that way (though they would have made a lovely couple))&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>M Harold Page, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2015\/06\/shieldwall-barbarians-writing-.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;<em>Shieldwall: Barbarians!<\/em> Writing and self-publishing an old school boy&#8217;s young officer story set in Attila&#8217;s invasion&#8221;, <em>Charlie&#8217;s Diary<\/em><\/a>, 2015-06-03.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Dark Age adventure, Shieldwall: Barbarians! is Young Adult, meaning, in this case, Sharpe or Conan but without the shagging, and with slightly more moral compass &mdash; really you can read it as being &#8220;in the tradition of&#8221; Harold Lamb and the Pulpmeisters of Yore and ignore the YA tag. When I wrote it, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":""},"categories":[32,57,41],"tags":[85,134],"class_list":["post-31597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-sf","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8dD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31598,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31597\/revisions\/31598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}