{"id":1087,"date":"2011-10-10T18:24:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T07:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2016-12-19T16:12:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T05:12:42","slug":"anatomy-of-a-novel-a-brief-history-of-montmaray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/anatomy-of-a-novel-a-brief-history-of-montmaray\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy Of A Novel: A Brief History of Montmaray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_1089\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1089\" style=\"width: 194px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/anatomy-of-a-novel-a-brief-history-of-montmaray\/giant-squid-1861\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1089\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Giant-Squid-1861-194x300.png\" alt=\"The Alecton attempts to capture a giant squid off Tenerife in 1861. Illustration from Harper Lee&#039;s &#039;Sea Monsters Unmasked&#039;, London, 1884.\" title=\"Giant Squid, 1861\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Giant-Squid-1861-194x300.png 194w, https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Giant-Squid-1861.png 389w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Alecton attempts to capture a giant squid off Tenerife in 1861. Illustration from Harper Lee&#039;s &#039;Sea Monsters Unmasked&#039;, London, 1884.<\/figcaption><\/figure>Simmone Howell has very kindly invited me to be part of her <a href=\"http:\/\/postteentrauma.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/anatomy%20of%20a%20novel\" title=\"Post-teen Trauma: Anatomy of a Novel series\">Anatomy of a Novel<\/a> series, in which &#8220;authors (mostly Australian, mostly YA) dissect their own books for your delight&#8221;. It&#8217;s a really fascinating set of blog posts, by authors such as <a href=\"http:\/\/postteentrauma.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/anatomy-of-novel-pipers-son.html\" title=\"Anatomy of a Novel: The Piper's Son\">Melina Marchetta<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/postteentrauma.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/anatomy-of-novel-laws-of-magic.html\" title=\"Anatomy of a Novel: The Laws of Magic\">Michael Pryor<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/postteentrauma.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/anatomy-of-novel-india-dark.html\" title=\"Anatomy of a Novel: India Dark\">Kirsty Murray<\/a> and many more. I&#8217;ve written about the fictional and real-life inspirations for <em>A Brief History of Montmaray<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/postteentrauma.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/anatomy-of-novel-brief-history-of.html\" title=\"Anatomy of a Novel: A Brief History of Montmaray\">here<\/a> (and yes, one of those inspirations may possibly be the Giant Squid).<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, I&#8217;m still stuck in my Editing Bunker, but I hope to emerge next week with some new blog posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simmone Howell has very kindly invited me to be part of her Anatomy of a Novel series, in which &#8220;authors (mostly Australian, mostly YA) dissect their own books for your delight&#8221;. It&#8217;s a really fascinating set of blog posts, by authors such as Melina Marchetta, Michael Pryor, Kirsty Murray and many more. I&#8217;ve written about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/anatomy-of-a-novel-a-brief-history-of-montmaray\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anatomy Of A Novel: A Brief History of Montmaray<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15,8],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-the-montmaray-journals","category-this-writing-life","tag-simmone-howell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}