{"id":748,"date":"2013-06-26T17:41:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T17:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/?p=748"},"modified":"2013-06-26T17:41:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T17:41:12","slug":"weekly-writing-prompt-june-26-2013-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/?p=748","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Writing Prompt &#8212; June 26, 2013 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Note: \u00a0apparently last week&#8217;s prompt was caught in a time-warp in Casz&#8217;s brain. We resume your regularly scheduled prompting this week, however. \u00a0Apologies for the\u00a0unannounced\u00a0vacation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thrilled about the SCOTUS decision regarding DOMA and am having some concentration issues.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If it weren&#8217;t for this rain, I&#8217;d be dancing in the streets.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But I digress&#8230;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We&#8217;ll get to today&#8217;s prompt, but first administrative issues:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>No Workshops This Summer.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>I got two people for each session to respond. So, I&#8217;m pulling the plug for summer. We&#8217;ll meet again come the autumn. Stay tuned.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Also need to let you all know about the<strong> Maple Valley Writers Group<\/strong>:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><em>Maple Valley Writers is a group devoted to local authors, working to motivate, promote, and support writing. All creative-minded individuals are welcome.<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">Tuesdays\u00a02-4PM\u00a0at the Spot in\u00a0Maple\u00a0Valley Four Corners<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">Join fellow writers for a mug o&#8217; joe or a glass of wine as we scribble, pen, type, talk, share, and laugh over our writing projects every Tuesday 2 &#8211; 4 PM at The Spot. You can blog, research, write your novel, work on a poem, edit, journal, pretend to do something productive while actually going on tickld, etc. Drop in or leave whenever you like.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">Sundays\u00a07-9PM\u00a0at the Creative Arts Center in\u00a0Maple\u00a0Valley<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">From the Center that brought you Open Mic nights on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month and Third Word Wednesdays every third\u00a0Wednesday\u00a0comes another fantastic opportunity to hone your craft. Join fellow aspiring\u00a0writers\u00a0every\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sunday 7 &#8211; 9 PM\u00a0<\/span>at the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Creative Arts Center\u00a0<\/span>to work on that novel, poem, short, story, essay, article, etc., surrounded by local artwork.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Drop in or leave whenever you like.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thanks,\u00a0Rachel of the\u00a0Writers.\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:maplevalleywriters@outlook.com\" target=\"_blank\">maplevalleywriter<wbr \/>s@outlook.com<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/maplevalley.writers\" target=\"_blank\">facebook.com\/<wbr \/>maplevalley.writers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/div>\n<div>Alright back to prompting&#8230;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Excitement, Celebration, Relief&#8230;.those are the key words. I want you to write a scene &#8212; either fresh or inside your current work in progress that displays those emotions. But don&#8217;t use those words. Yes, this is another show don&#8217;t tell exercise. Try to make it about 500 words. But no more than that. If you&#8217;re under, fine.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Go!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Hope to see you all at the Writer&#8217;s Cafe tonight and Friday.<\/div>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\n&#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\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SnoValleyWrites\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/<wbr \/>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: \u00a0apparently last week&#8217;s prompt was caught in a time-warp in Casz&#8217;s brain. We resume your regularly scheduled prompting this week, however. \u00a0Apologies for the\u00a0unannounced\u00a0vacation. I&#8217;m thrilled about the SCOTUS decision regarding DOMA and am having some concentration issues. If it weren&#8217;t for this rain, I&#8217;d be dancing in the streets. But I digress&#8230; We&#8217;ll &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/?p=748\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekly Writing Prompt &#8212; June 26, 2013 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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","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\/748","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=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}