Welcome to February Writers!<\/p>\n
A few deadlines to keep in mind today:<\/p>\n
Feb. 13th –\u00a0Jane Austen Short Story Competition<\/p>\n
(http:\/\/www.zimbio.com\/Jane+Austen\/articles\/tLicCUWELbU\/Jane+Austen+Short+Story+Contest+Submission<\/a>)<\/p>\n Feb. 18th – PNWA Literary Contest Deadline (see\u00a0http:\/\/www.pnwa.org<\/a> for details)<\/p>\n There are plenty others, this is just a smattering. Check out the latest issue of Poets & Writers for other submission calls, writing-in-residence programs and contests, too.<\/p>\n Get it out there!<\/p>\n **********<\/p>\n Your prompt today comes to us via the historic demonstration in Egypt this past week plus. I want you to take a historic event — one you have had great interest in and create a character to experience it. This may lead to a little bit of research, but don’t let it overtake your writing time. Just get enough so it can seem historically accurate. Remember fiction can have the “It’s a Magic Train” element to it. For those that don’t know what I’m talking about regarding the Magic Train, you should really break out of your writing shyness and join us during one of our Bi-Monthly Writers Work Sessions. But back to the prompt, get your story going, remember to keep the personal element in the story. What happens to your character during the American Revolution,\u00a0a day\u00a0watching the guillotine at work in Paris, or on\u00a0a ship sailing for the great Silk trading routes?\u00a0Work on your story\u00a0 until you think that it’s good enough to send out. Then do it. Send it out!<\/p>\n **********<\/p>\n Next Writers Work Session is Feb. 13th at the North Bend Library Meeting Room at 3 p.m. Bring something to revise.<\/p>\n **********<\/p>\n And now your moment of Writing Zen:\u00a0\u00a0Poetry is just the evidence of life.\u00a0 If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.\u00a0 ~Leonard Cohen Casondra Brewster “But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Get it out there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-writing-prompt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","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=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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