{"id":993,"date":"2015-05-20T14:35:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T14:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/?p=993"},"modified":"2015-05-20T14:35:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T14:35:54","slug":"weekly-writing-prompt-may-20-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/?p=993","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Writing Prompt &#8212; May 20, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writers:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Today&#8217;s prompt is about something I&#8217;m still trying to get many of you to do &#8212; and that&#8217;s to make sure you&#8217;re doing literary field-trips as often as possible. There&#8217;s so many reading, writing work shops, cool book stores, storyteller circles, \u00a0heck, there&#8217;s even a <a href=\"http:\/\/heyevent.com\/event\/627975197302646\/hike-write-and-more-with-poet-laureate-elizabeth-austen\">Hike &amp; Write <\/a>coming up (which I hope to attend). When was the last literary field trip you went on? Oh, and a great one right here in town coming up on May 27th: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/107330796266747\/\">\u00a0Bard &amp; Starlet Radio Hour.\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>These kinds of events fuel your creative fire and many of us need a kick in the creative fire pants now and then.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That&#8217;s your prompt. Find some field trips and go. Don&#8217;t forget to write about them after (whether you publish via a blog or just keep it in your private journal&#8230;just write).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Now your moment of Writing Zen:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainyquote.com\/quotes\/authors\/a\/alice_walker.html\">Alice Walker<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\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<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writers: Today&#8217;s prompt is about something I&#8217;m still trying to get many of you to do &#8212; and that&#8217;s to make sure you&#8217;re doing literary field-trips as often as possible. There&#8217;s so many reading, writing work shops, cool book stores, storyteller circles, \u00a0heck, there&#8217;s even a Hike &amp; Write coming up (which I hope to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/?p=993\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekly Writing Prompt &#8212; May 20, 2015<\/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-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","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=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snovalleywrites.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}