{"id":7675,"date":"2026-06-26T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=7675"},"modified":"2026-06-23T13:21:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T18:21:30","slug":"local-serialized-novel-enters-five-hundred-and-seventh-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/local-serialized-novel-enters-five-hundred-and-seventh-chapter\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Serialized Novel Enters Five Hundred and Seventh Chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CHESTNUT-ON-THE-GROVE, ENGLAND \u2013 1867 \u2013 Local novelist Henrietta Norwich caused a stir in the <em>Chestnut-on-the-Grove Chronicle<\/em> this morning when the five-hundred-and-seventh installment of her serialized novel, <em>The Abandoned Plot<\/em>, was published. The main storyline of <em>The Abandoned Plot<\/em> was resolved in Chapter 43, when the heroine, Genevieve, died clutching the locket she had recently inherited from her long-lost mother. However, Miss Norwich insists that the four hundred and sixty-four chapters she has added since then are completely relevant to the plot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMany of my critics complain that merely because I am paid by the word, I have an irritating, frustrating, bothersome, and vexatious predilection towards excessive and unnecessary verbiage of minuscule worth,\u201d said Miss Norwich in a recent interview. \u201cBut to that I utter it is simply not true nor the case. I am merely exploring the full implications of the serialized form to stretch out the plot of my novel for as long as is humanly possible. Do you believe that my fifty-page meditation on the Battle of Waterloo was superfluous? Or indeed, that I should have excised all of my digressions on the biology of the American grey squirrel? Nay, what you call irrelevant, I call absolutely essential to the novelistic form.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other news, Miss Norwich plans to finish a future installment with a character hanging from a cliff and is unsure whether there exists a more evocative term for such a plot point. If any readers know of a term to better describe this character-hanging-from-a-cliff situation, Miss Norwich would be forever grateful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main storyline of The Abandoned Plot was resolved in Chapter 43, when the heroine, Genevieve, died clutching the locket she had recently inherited from her long-lost mother. However, Miss Norwich insists that the four hundred and sixty-four chapters she has added since then are completely relevant to the plot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2090,"featured_media":7676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical-issue","category-literary-happenings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7678,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675\/revisions\/7678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}