{"id":1116,"date":"2016-08-10T17:15:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T17:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2016-08-10T17:15:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T17:15:29","slug":"writing-prompt-august-10-2016-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/?p=1116","title":{"rendered":"Writing Prompt &#8212; August 10, 2016 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writers, Friends:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This weekend our valley goes into festival mode. So your prompt is to take advantage of that. Grab your favorite writing utensil and a notebook and go sit amongst the festival goers and create a story about what you see. At minimum, go and take people-watching notes. Create new characters for future stories. Record tidbits of conversation. Be the observer a writer needs to be.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That&#8217;s your prompt this week.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And now your moment of Writing Zen:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cDo stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration&#8217;s shove or society&#8217;s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It&#8217;s all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2015\u00a0Susan Sontag<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writers, Friends: This weekend our valley goes into festival mode. So your prompt is to take advantage of that. Grab your favorite writing utensil and a notebook and go sit amongst the festival goers and create a story about what you see. At minimum, go and take people-watching notes. Create new characters for future stories. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/?p=1116\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writing Prompt &#8212; August 10, 2016 Edition<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","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=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}