{"id":1326,"date":"2011-03-25T02:21:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T22:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2011-03-25T02:21:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T22:21:25","slug":"10-books-every-writer-should-read-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/10-books-every-writer-should-read-2\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Books Every Writer Should Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px;\"><em>Brandi&#8217;s new column:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Helvetica, Sans, FreeSans, Jamrul, Garuda, Kalimati; margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px;\">Whether your focus in fiction writing is in comics, screenplays, or good ol\u2019 fashioned novels, every writer can agree that one of the most important tools you can have is a well read, well versed mind. The more you read (in your genre\/medium and outside of it), the more ideas you are exposed to; the more you are exposed to, the more you can imagine and create.\u00a0 So here are, in my humble albeit noble opinion, the ten fiction titles which I feel every writer should read.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Helvetica, Sans, FreeSans, Jamrul, Garuda, Kalimati; margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px;\">In no particular order:<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?page_id=1316\">10 Books Every Writer Should Read \u00ab<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandi&#8217;s new column: Whether your focus in fiction writing is in comics, screenplays, or good ol\u2019 fashioned novels, every writer can agree that one of the most important tools you can have is a well read, well versed mind. The more you read (in your genre\/medium and outside of it), the more ideas you are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-and-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1opIU-lo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3446,"url":"https:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/the-experts-who-put-actual-science-into-hollywood-science-fiction\/","url_meta":{"origin":1326,"position":0},"title":"The Experts Who Put Actual Science into Hollywood Science Fiction","author":"AJ","date":"January 27, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Chances are, if you've seen a science fiction movie recently and been stunned to hear actual science mentioned, you have a scientific advisor to thank. 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