{"id":299,"date":"2023-03-11T14:38:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T14:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/la-granota.com\/blogs\/?p=299"},"modified":"2023-06-30T14:42:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T14:42:38","slug":"dragonlitinvasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/la-granota.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2023\/03\/11\/dragonlitinvasion\/","title":{"rendered":"DragonLitInvasion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

La Gr@not@ is calling for contributions for a new anthology. Several participants had a great deal of fun with the week on Wanna Score? dedicated to the dragon invasion of famous works of literature: https:\/\/twitter.com\/granota_hut\/status\/1581917287484821504<\/a>, and a few have asked for the theme to be continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So here it is. The rules are a little bit<\/strong> complicated:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(1) Choose a [famous<\/em><\/strong>] book (which may be fiction or non-fiction), short story, essay, play, speech, or poem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2) Make sure that it’s in public domain. This means that it’s copyright-free, which usually<\/strong> means that the copyright has expired (works originally<\/strong> published in the U.S.A. before 1928; by British, Australian, and European-Union authors who died before 1953; or by Canadian and New Zealand authors who died before 1973; for authors from other countries, check this list<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2a) An easier rule-of-thumb: If it was published anywhere<\/strong> in the 19th century or earlier, it’s almost certainly safe to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2b) The Gutenberg Press<\/a> is a good place to find material online, though some modern works published there might still be under copyright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(3) Copy the FIRST sentence [in full] of your chosen work into one of the comment boxes at the foot of this page. (You may – if you wish – alter the punctuation, for example, by converting it into direct speech or ending the sentence with a comma. But you may not add any other words before step 4.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or you may post your entries on Twitter<\/a>… but then they’ll have a 280-character limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(4) Continue with the words “and then the dragons came”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(5) Follow that with words of your own choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(6) Unlike the original exercise in Wanna Score?, you are not limited to the 20-word rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(7) You may submit graphic art, which should be sent to invasion(at)la-granota(dot)com or posted on the Twitter page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(8) IMPORTANT!<\/strong> Name the title of the work and the author from which\/whom you’ve borrowed your first sentence. This saves the editors from searching the Internet for your source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(9) Participation implies permission for your entry to be included in a La Gr@not@ anthology, with all profits going to Amnesty International<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(10) You should give the name by which you want your entry to be credited. (If you don’t give it within the comment box, the one you use for posting will be used.) We will later ask you to provide a mini-CV (not compulsory, but it’s useful for advertising your other work).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(11) Multiple entries are VERY welcome. In fact, 6 or more [accepted] text entries (or one original piece of graphic art which illustrates a dragon invasion of literature) entitle you to a free copy of the finished, digital anthology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(12) It should go without saying that the same work may be used more than once, so if you see your chosen book (or whatever) already invaded, you may have your<\/strong> dragons invade it from a different direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(13) Due to the recent spate of book-bannings in certain areas of the U.S.A., we’ll be marking books which have been banned there. An incomplete list of such public-domain books can be found here<\/a>. If the book you choose has been banned anywhere (but isn’t on that list) – or been subjected to a public book-burning – please indicate that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(14) Mild swearing is permissible (please don’t go hard-core, since some readers might be young), but hate-speech (including misogyny, racism, LGBTQ+phobia, etc.) is not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(15) The entries already submitted (see below) will give you an idea of how to present your submission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(16) We’d like to encourage the use of books for children.. and especially entries FROM children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

******<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We wish you satisfying searches, pleasant purloining, and adventurous adapting!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* The Wanna Score? anthology can be found (along with other digital books) at https:\/\/la-granota.com\/list.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

La Gr@not@ is calling for contributions for a new anthology. Several participants had a great deal of fun with the week on Wanna Score? dedicated to the dragon invasion of famous works of literature: https:\/\/twitter.com\/granota_hut\/status\/1581917287484821504, and a few have asked for the theme to be continued. So here it is. The rules are a little… Continue reading DragonLitInvasion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,8,7,9],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dragons","tag-famous-books","tag-literature","tag-writing-competition","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/la-granota.com\/blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/la-granota.com\/blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/la-granota.com\/blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la-granota.com\/blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la-granota.com\/blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/la-granota.com\/blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/la-granota.com\/blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/la-granota.com\/blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la-granota.com\/blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la-granota.com\/blogs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}