{"id":934,"date":"2014-11-12T17:36:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T17:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/?p=934"},"modified":"2014-11-12T17:36:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T17:36:16","slug":"weekly-writing-prompt-nov-12-2014-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/?p=934","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Writing Prompt &#8212; Nov. 12, 2014 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/a9772aedfc4246e1eb4cd81272bc0145.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-935 alignright\" alt=\"a9772aedfc4246e1eb4cd81272bc0145\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/a9772aedfc4246e1eb4cd81272bc0145.jpg\" width=\"236\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a>Writers:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In my morning pages today I was not happy with myself and the amount of writing I&#8217;m doing. It&#8217;s Wednesday and besides my freelance work, which requires much writing, sure; but, it&#8217;s not MY writing. I&#8217;m behind in NaNoWriMo goals. I have too many manuscripts that need varying levels of polishing. Then I have to remind myself that it&#8217;s a process. Creating is a process. It&#8217;s also cyclic. One day you&#8217;ll love what you write &#8212; I was giggling my butt off silly on Sunday writing, so pleased with what I wrote. Today, I&#8217;m frustrated with how much I&#8217;m getting done. Yet, I carry on. I keep trudging. Snap writing here. Editing there. It will get done. I can&#8217;t be a superhero about it. It&#8217;s unrealistic. That doesn&#8217;t mean I shouldn&#8217;t push, I shouldn&#8217;t focus my energies and efforts.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That brings me to today&#8217;s prompt. You need to forgive yourself your creative missteps. Have something published you wish you could take back? Not satisfied with how often you write? Giving yourself the side-eye because your manuscript is not published? Are you beating yourself up because you haven&#8217;t sent out any queries?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Forgive yourself.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Then get back on that writing habit and rectify things. May we all live so long that our early work is an embarrassment to us. Find the hurdle that&#8217;s eating into your writing time and overcome it. Send out that query. Even more boldly decide you&#8217;re going to author publish.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Don&#8217;t forget our workshop is this week on Saturday, Nov. 15th, at the North Bend Library at 10:30 a.m.. I&#8217;ll have an abbreviated workshop so that the last 1\/2 hour can be dedicated to writing. This month&#8217;s topic is on where to send your work. Please RSVP so I know to plan appropriately, especially this week as there will be handouts.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Now your moment of writing Zen:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Don&#8217;t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.&#8221; ~Muhammed Ali.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&#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\/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: In my morning pages today I was not happy with myself and the amount of writing I&#8217;m doing. It&#8217;s Wednesday and besides my freelance work, which requires much writing, sure; but, it&#8217;s not MY writing. I&#8217;m behind in NaNoWriMo goals. I have too many manuscripts that need varying levels of polishing. Then I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/?p=934\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekly Writing Prompt &#8212; Nov. 12, 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":[239,240,203,196],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-writing-prompt","tag-creativity","tag-forgiveness","tag-prompt","tag-write-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","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=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}