{"id":350,"date":"2011-02-13T23:07:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T04:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T13:27:54","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T18:27:54","slug":"deal-with-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/deal-with-the-devil\/","title":{"rendered":"Deal with the Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every writer has to write a deal-with-the-Devil story sometime, just to get it out of his or her system. I think that it&#8217;s one of the stepping stones across which all fantasy writers must pass. I just wish that my take on the concept, published in the Summer 1984 issue of <em>Prelude to Fantasy<\/em>, had been a better one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Deal with the Devil&#8221; is told in the form of letters between what are apparently two gamers playing out a scenario by mail, one of whom is eventually revealed to be &#8230; well, you know who.<\/p>\n<p>This is another one of my early stories that will likely never be reprinted. It isn&#8217;t that I wish to disown it, because it served its purpose, and at the time was the best that I could accomplish, but it falls so far short of the way I write now that it&#8217;s almost by a different person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every writer has to write a deal-with-the-Devil story sometime, just to get it out of his or her system. I think that it&#8217;s one of the stepping stones across which all fantasy writers must pass. I just wish that my take on the concept, published in the Summer 1984 issue of Prelude to Fantasy, had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351,"parent":13,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-350","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/350\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}