{"id":1008,"date":"2015-07-08T15:18:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T15:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2015-07-08T15:18:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T15:18:14","slug":"weekly-writing-prompt-july-8-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/?p=1008","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Writing Prompt &#8212; July 8, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, every time I type the date for one of these I&#8221;m amazed by how long we&#8217;ve been together encouraging one another, helping, boosting, critiquing, and becoming friends. I have much love and respect for this group. I hope you all feel the same.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>However, there&#8217;s still more to do. Still more growth to happen, more pushing of boundaries for our writing lives.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>What did you push this week? What have you pushed this month?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Your writing prompt is to answer that question, to yourself, in reply to me, and with members of the group as you see them at cafes, at the July 18th peer-review critique meeting, or around the valley.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If you can&#8217;t answer that question, you have work to do. If you can answer it, how can you push further? Make a plan. Get to work.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And Now your moment of Writing Zen:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThat&#8217;s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can&#8217;t control life, at least you can control your version.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2015\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/2546.Chuck_Palahniuk\">Chuck Palahniuk<\/a>,\u00a0<i>Stranger than Fiction<\/i><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_signature\">\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nWhat did you Write today?<br \/>\n~Casz<\/p>\n<p>Casondra Brewster<br \/>\nModerator\/Founder<br \/>\nSno Valley Writes!<br \/>\nHelping Writers Reach New Literary Peaks Since 2008<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org<\/a><br \/>\nCheck us out on Facebook:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SnoValleyWrites\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SnoValleyWrites<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But words are things, and a small drop of ink,<br \/>\nFalling, like dew upon a thought, produces<br \/>\nThat which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.&#8221; ~ Lord Byron<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, every time I type the date for one of these I&#8221;m amazed by how long we&#8217;ve been together encouraging one another, helping, boosting, critiquing, and becoming friends. I have much love and respect for this group. I hope you all feel the same. However, there&#8217;s still more to do. Still more growth to happen, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/?p=1008\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekly Writing Prompt &#8212; July 8, 2015<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[267,204,266,58,268],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-push-out-of-your-comfort-zone","tag-sno-valley-writes","tag-work-to-do","tag-writing-life","tag-years-together"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}