{"id":1327,"date":"2010-11-10T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:33:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:33:23","slug":"save-contemporary-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1327","title":{"rendered":"Save the Contemporary, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fomagrams.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/10\/is-this-real-life\/\" target= _blank>If Contemporary YA quietly disappeared tomorrow would teens even notice?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>That, friends, is the question at <i>fomagrams<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes as a writer, I&#8217;m a little scared that the books I think of have <i>no point<\/i>, as in, &#8220;There&#8217;s no point in writing this because there&#8217;s no werewolf in this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Worse, sometimes I&#8217;m scared that the fantasy and science fiction books that I want to write are buying into a hype that&#8217;s already existing. No, I&#8217;m not going to write steampunk. Or werewolves. Or Animorphs, although that was a really fun series. I really want to write original content, but there&#8217;s none of that left, really.<\/p>\n<p>All writing is rewriting another story &#8211; and these days, it&#8217;s another story with vampires.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a point to continuing to try?<\/p>\n<p>P&#8217;raps Mr. E. <a href=\"https:\/\/fomagrams.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/10\/is-this-real-life\/\" target= _blank>will provoke some thought<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Contemporary YA quietly disappeared tomorrow would teens even notice? That, friends, is the question at fomagrams. Sometimes as a writer, I&#8217;m a little&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random-notes-and-errata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6282,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions\/6282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}