{"id":301,"date":"2008-06-01T17:08:07","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T17:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=301"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:34:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:34:21","slug":"frederic-brown-lazy-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2008\/06\/01\/frederic-brown-lazy-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"FREDERIC BROWN: LAZY GENIUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Screaming_Mimi.jpg\" id=\"image300\" title=\"Screaming_Mimi.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/Screaming_Mimi.jpg\" \/>There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle or end. Of course, you have to be regarded as a genius to get away with it, and that&#8217;s the hardest part &#8212; convincing everybody you&#8217;re a genius.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>&#8211;Frederic Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to his wife, Fredric William Brown hated to write. So he did everything he could to avoid it-he&#8217;d play his flute, challenge a friend to a game of chess, or tease Ming Tah, his Siamese cat. Plotting was a stickler, too. If Brown had trouble working out a certain story, he would hop on a long bus trip to nowhere and just sit and think and plot for days on end.<\/p>\n<p>But when Brown finally did return home and plant himself in front of the typewriter, Jesus! the man did it all! Hardboiled mystery, paradoxical sf, short fantasy, black comedy-and sometimes, all of the above. That&#8217;s what makes Brown&#8217;s work so damned fun. He crossed genres like a demon, plotted like a madman, and continually stretched the boundaries of any given genre into his own strange, private geography. &#8212; Read more about this neglected writer from the source: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thrillingdetective.com\/trivia\/brown.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Authors &#038; Creators: Fredric Brown<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle or end. Of course, you have to be regarded as a genius to get away with it, and that&rsquo;s the hardest part &mdash; convincing everybody you&rsquo;re a genius.&rdquo; &ndash;Frederic Brown According to his wife, Fredric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}