{"id":45740,"date":"2019-03-20T16:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/?p=45740"},"modified":"2019-03-19T19:02:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T23:02:10","slug":"traumatic-journeys-in-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/20\/traumatic-journeys-in-fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"Traumatic Journeys in Fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a blog post on Tor.com, writer and editor Leah Schnelbach examines how some writers have taken their protagonists through the journey of processing trauma, rather than through the typical route of heroic quest or criminal heist.\u00a0Using excerpts from Katherine Addison&#8217;s <em>The Goblin Emperor<\/em> and Jo Walton&#8217;s <em>Among Others<\/em>,\u00a0Schnelbach shows how the authors introduce traumatic event and relate their effects on their protagonists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tor.com\/2019\/02\/27\/how-jo-waltons-among-others-and-katherine-addisons-the-goblin-emperor-tell-stories-of-trauma-and-recovery\/\">Read the full post here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/old-books-book-old-library-436498\/\">Image<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/jarmoluk-143740\/\">jarmoluk<\/a> on Pixabay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a blog post on Tor.com, writer and editor Leah Schnelbach examines how some writers have taken their protagonists through the journey of processing trauma, rather than through the typical route of heroic quest or criminal heist.\u00a0Using excerpts from Katherine Addison&#8217;s The Goblin Emperor and Jo Walton&#8217;s Among Others,\u00a0Schnelbach shows how the authors introduce traumatic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436,470],"tags":[453,452,454,489,459],"class_list":["post-45740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10-minute-workshop","category-pro-tips","tag-characters","tag-craft","tag-plot","tag-theme","tag-writing-what-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45816,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45740\/revisions\/45816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}