{"id":3363,"date":"2016-07-12T09:30:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T16:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2016-07-12T09:30:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T16:30:24","slug":"diabolical-plots-280-for-short-stories-speculative-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/diabolical-plots-280-for-short-stories-speculative-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Diabolical Plots: $280 for Short Stories (Speculative Fiction)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Diabolical Plots<\/strong> is open to submissions of short stories until the end of July, 2016. They publish speculative fiction in the genres of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror.<\/p>\n<p>According to their website, they particularly like:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Weird\u00a0fiction<br \/>\nSense of wonder<br \/>\nStrong character and plot arcs<br \/>\nRelatable protagonists (not necessarily likeable, not necessarily reliable)<br \/>\nStrong worldbuilding, hinting at more to see around the edges of the story<br \/>\nPhilosophical food-for-thought<br \/>\nStraightforward, easily readable style<br \/>\nReligion, where the story does not try to convert the reader, nor does the story demonize religion\u2013this is oddly rare in fiction that I read, even though I know a lot of people where religion is an important part of their lives.<br \/>\nPlatonic friendship between men and women&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They pay 8 cents per word, up to 3,500 words.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, read their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diabolicalplots.com\/guidelines\/\">submission guidelines.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diabolical Plots is open to submissions of short stories until the end of July, 2016. They publish speculative fiction in the genres of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. According to their website, they particularly like: &#8220;Weird\u00a0fiction Sense of wonder Strong character and plot arcs Relatable protagonists (not necessarily likeable, not necessarily reliable) Strong worldbuilding, hinting at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3364,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions\/3364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}