{"id":20402,"date":"2015-10-08T10:17:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T17:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=20402"},"modified":"2015-10-08T13:10:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T20:10:31","slug":"cat-rambo-and-i-teaching-a-class-on-nov-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=20402","title":{"rendered":"Cat Rambo and I teaching a class on Nov 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interested in writing retellings? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kittywumpus.net\/blog\/re-telling-and-re-taleing\/\">Cat Rambo and I are teaching a class together: retellings and re-taleings.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Authors constantly draw on the stories that have preceded them, particularly folklore, mythology, and fables. What are the best methods for approaching such material and what are the possible pitfall? How does one achieve originality when working with such familiar stories? Lecture, in-class exercise, and discussion will build your proficiency when working with such stories.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cat Rambo has been a friend of mine since 2005 when she and I, along with many other fabulous people, went to Clarion West together. She&#8217;s a Nebula nominated author \u00a0with an established short story career whose first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Beasts-Tabat-The-Quartet-Book-ebook\/dp\/B00UENRR8Q\">novel<\/a> just came out. She&#8217;s also the current president of SFWA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kittywumpus.net\/blog\/re-telling-and-re-taleing\/\">The class<\/a> is at 9:30 am pacific time on November 8, taught online. It&#8217;s $99, 10% off for former students.<\/p>\n<p>(Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/us6.campaign-archive2.com\/?u=5c1e6d30440f85da8e0ac39d3&amp;id=98695efb2a\">Cat&#8217;s other classes<\/a>, too!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interested in writing retellings? Cat Rambo and I are teaching a class together: retellings and re-taleings. Authors constantly draw on the stories that have preceded them, particularly folklore, mythology, and fables. What are the best methods for approaching such material &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=20402\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20402"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20407,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20402\/revisions\/20407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}