{"id":1126,"date":"2016-10-05T21:45:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T21:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2016-10-05T21:45:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T21:45:49","slug":"weekly-writing-prompt-october-5-2016-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/?p=1126","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Writing Prompt &#8212; October 5, 2016 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writers:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There are some days where I feel like I&#8217;m typing these words into an abyss and no one reads the words or digests them. Those days do happen, I&#8217;m sure. Then there are other times, when a nice note back is filled with its own sort of inspiration. To those that take the time to respond to these missives with blog links or even a small thank-you, you are why SnoValley Writes! continues on.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Today your prompt is to send me your success. I want to be able to tell everyone about book launches, contracts, readings, etc. And then have the group show up en mass to such occasions\/postings\/events. But I need to know who is doing what and how it is going.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So send me your squee and let me squawk for you.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Now your moment of Writing Zen:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2015\u00a0<a class=\"gmail-authorOrTitle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/874602.Ursula_K_Le_Guin\">Ursula K. Le Guin<\/a>,\u00a0<span id=\"gmail-quote_book_link_92625\">The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas<\/span><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_signature\">\n<p>What 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>Writers: There are some days where I feel like I&#8217;m typing these words into an abyss and no one reads the words or digests them. Those days do happen, I&#8217;m sure. Then there are other times, when a nice note back is filled with its own sort of inspiration. To those that take the time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/?p=1126\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekly Writing Prompt &#8212; October 5, 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-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","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=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}