{"id":59014,"date":"2023-03-23T03:39:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T03:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=59014"},"modified":"2023-03-23T18:42:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T18:42:08","slug":"writer-the-shaping-of-popular-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/03\/23\/writer-the-shaping-of-popular-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer: the shaping of popular fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A handsomely designed collection of texts on early pulp writing, by L. Ron Hubbard. Collected in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/writershapingofp0000unse\/page\/n7\/mode\/2up\">Writer: the shaping of popular fiction<\/a><\/em> (2012). Now available to borrow on Archive.org. An earlier edition was already on there, but was not as nicely designed and the pictures were very dark and murky. Here they&#8217;re clear and crisp.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/hubbard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/hubbard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"370\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/hubbard.jpg 900w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/hubbard-528x370.jpg 528w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/hubbard-768x538.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on <em>Tentaclii<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lovecraft once had a long restaurant conversation with the flame-haired and young Hubbard, according to Frank Belknap Long. While impressed by the \u201cextraordinary\u201d lad, he evidently felt Hubbard was too professional and un-cosmic a writer to strike up a correspondence with.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So the interest here is more in Hubbard&#8217;s insights into the markets and fans of the period, rather than in any strong connection with Lovecraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A handsomely designed collection of texts on early pulp writing, by L. Ron Hubbard. Collected in Writer: the shaping of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/03\/23\/writer-the-shaping-of-popular-fiction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59014"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59034,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59014\/revisions\/59034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}