{"id":860,"date":"2014-04-09T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/?p=860"},"modified":"2014-04-09T15:00:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T15:00:07","slug":"weekly-writing-prompt-april-9-2014-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/?p=860","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Writing Prompt &#8212; April 9, 2014 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warm April Greetings To You:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The work shop last night was another intimate affair. Those that attended got some juicy details on book reviews &#8212; the how, the why, the where, and the who, of course.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m missing many of you. But we can&#8217;t look at changing when the work shops are until January of 2015. Regardless, it seems no matter what day and time, some of you won&#8217;t be able to come. Do know that I always plan to give good information, exercises, and encouragement to follow your writing dreams and desires.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If there is a topic you would like covered in the work shops, please let me know and I&#8217;ll do my best to get it on the schedule. We meet again April 22, at the North Bend Library, 6 p.m. I hope to see more of you there. The topic is &#8220;How to be on an agent&#8217;s MUST HAVE list.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Today&#8217;s prompt is a more traditional prompt. I&#8217;ll give you a scenario and you try to write a short story or scene in your WIP around the prompt. Try to get at least 1500 words.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You or your main character is a writer (haha, big stretch, I know), and everything you write keeps happening around you. What does the writer do?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Go. Write. Don&#8217;t worry about editing, punctuation, spelling, none of it. The goal is to just get the words down.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Don&#8217;t put it off. Go do it now. Or put it on your daytimer\/calendar to make it happen before next week. Just do it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Writers Write. So, go write.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And now your moment of Writing Zen:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.&#8221; ~ Henry Miller<\/p>\n<div><\/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>Warm April Greetings To You: The work shop last night was another intimate affair. Those that attended got some juicy details on book reviews &#8212; the how, the why, the where, and the who, of course. I&#8217;m missing many of you. But we can&#8217;t look at changing when the work shops are until January of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/?p=860\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekly Writing Prompt &#8212; April 9, 2014 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":[193,192,15,156,34],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-writing-prompt","tag-agent-list","tag-book-review","tag-snovalley-writes","tag-work-shop","tag-writing-zen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","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=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}