{"id":5203,"date":"2019-02-06T17:18:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T00:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=5203"},"modified":"2019-02-06T17:18:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T00:18:04","slug":"sharing-a-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2019\/02\/06\/sharing-a-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing A World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the 80s, when Wild Cards was born, shared worlds ruled the racks.\u00a0\u00a0 THIEVES WORLD, ITHKAR, WAR WORLD, LIAVEK, HEROES IN HELL, GREYSTONE BAY, and on and on.\u00a0 New series were popping up every month.\u00a0 Today, only Wild Cards remains, still going strong after thirty-one years and twenty-seven volumes.<\/p>\n<p>Writing for a shared world has some unique challenges, however.\u00a0\u00a0 In August 2017, a large group of Wild Carders assembled at my Jean Cocteau Cinema in Santa Fe for a mass signing, and we interviewed them about the up and downs of writing other people&#8217;s characters, and having other people write yours.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RLaR3t2M-_8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the 80s, when Wild Cards was born, shared worlds ruled the racks.\u00a0\u00a0 THIEVES WORLD, ITHKAR, WAR WORLD, LIAVEK, HEROES IN HELL, GREYSTONE BAY, and on and on.\u00a0 New series were popping up every month.\u00a0 Today, only Wild Cards remains, still going strong after thirty-one years and twenty-seven volumes. Writing for a shared world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,48,37,7,19],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5205,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203\/revisions\/5205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}