{"id":950,"date":"2015-01-21T18:20:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T18:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/?p=950"},"modified":"2015-01-21T18:20:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T18:20:34","slug":"weekly-writing-prompt-jan-21-2015-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/?p=950","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Writing Prompt &#8212; Jan. 21, 2015 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Greetings Writers:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Today I want to remind you about snap writing &#8212; about carrying a small notebook and pen with you wherever you go to write at any moment you can.Waiting at the bus stop? Riding the bus? Stuck in the doctor&#8217;s office? In between meetings? On a lunch break? The answer is writing &#8212; snap writing. Doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s for two minutes or twenty. Just get it down. Try a poem. Keep working on your novel. Write a flash fiction short story. Anything. Everything. In a snap you could have 100 words. Those moments of snap quickly add up to 1,000 words.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>What snap writing could you do today? Get that notebook and pen ready!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Also, need an artist&#8217;s date or literary field trip? One of our own is having an event: \u00a0\u00a0Rachel Barnard&#8217;s audiobook for<i> At One&#8217;s Beast<\/i> just went live and she&#8217;s going to have a party to celebrate! It will be\u00a0<span class=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_554141430\"><span class=\"\">January 22nd<\/span><\/span>\u00a0(also her birthday) from\u00a0<span class=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_554141431\"><span class=\"\">6 to 8 PM<\/span><\/span>\u00a0at St. James Espresso in Kirkland. For more details:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/719396628129454\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.<wbr \/>com\/events\/719396628129454<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is a more open party as she will also be celebrating her 25th birthday and her love of reading and cake.\u00a0\u00a0She invites you all to join her.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Now get writing! But, first your moment of Writing Zen:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>&#8220;The impatient idealist says: &#8216;Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.&#8217; But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.&#8221; ~ Chinua Achebe<\/em><\/div>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<div class=\"gmail_signature\">\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 <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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings Writers: Today I want to remind you about snap writing &#8212; about carrying a small notebook and pen with you wherever you go to write at any moment you can.Waiting at the bus stop? Riding the bus? Stuck in the doctor&#8217;s office? In between meetings? On a lunch break? The answer is writing &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/?p=950\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekly Writing Prompt &#8212; Jan. 21, 2015 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-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","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=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}