{"id":256577,"date":"2025-05-25T16:27:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T16:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/an-awfully-big-blog-adventure-three-times\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T16:27:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T16:27:05","slug":"an-awfully-big-blog-adventure-three-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=256577","title":{"rendered":"An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Three times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;, serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">A short post this month.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;, serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">(I\u2019m stuck into the first draft of a new story, and plotting for me is like wading through treacle wearing lead-filled wellington boots. Exhausting.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;, serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Anyway, I\u2019ve been reading a critical study of crime fiction from 1800 \u2013 2000. And in the section about Agatha Christie, I came across this sentence:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;, serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u2018<i>Like some other deeply original books [her first novel],\u00a0<\/i>The Mysterious Affair at Styles<i>\u00a0(1920) found a publisher with some difficulty, being rejected three times.<\/i>\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;, serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">I had to stop and read that again to let it sink in: three times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;, serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;\"><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Only\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN-GB\">three times?<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEipKL_f0uxGp8wBzkiB3QxZdqmnd1iLxxkQJDJ1SwsN7pyazkK54Xg_wJXzIwbRrLkZNbt1rL9qRcVd2cL6YSHNzLlKAYDlMFRExSVYBzyQbN6z6fh2DXB9cFdxSHlXPi2y-AG4PFI_PLpBm3bSRWZA1MgaAlWmg94Tv0ORgYQy-ScqC7UQ7u3FC2kLs8yJ\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"1112\" data-original-width=\"728\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEipKL_f0uxGp8wBzkiB3QxZdqmnd1iLxxkQJDJ1SwsN7pyazkK54Xg_wJXzIwbRrLkZNbt1rL9qRcVd2cL6YSHNzLlKAYDlMFRExSVYBzyQbN6z6fh2DXB9cFdxSHlXPi2y-AG4PFI_PLpBm3bSRWZA1MgaAlWmg94Tv0ORgYQy-ScqC7UQ7u3FC2kLs8yJ=w252-h385\" width=\"252\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short post this month.\u00a0 (I\u2019m stuck into the first draft of a new story, and plotting for me is like wading through treacle wearing lead-filled wellington boots. Exhausting.) Anyway, I\u2019ve been reading a critical study of crime fiction from 1800 \u2013 2000. And in the section about Agatha Christie, I came across this sentence: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[3164,1022,3767,4319],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-256577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-adventure","tag-big","tag-blog","tag-times"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Three times - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=256577\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Three times - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A short post this month.\u00a0 (I\u2019m stuck into the first draft of a new story, and plotting for me is like wading through treacle wearing lead-filled wellington boots. 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