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Weekly Writing Prompt — June 11, 2014 Edition

June 11, 2014Weekly Writing Promptnew schedule, permission, schedule, summer sabbatical, weekly writing prompt, workshop, Writing Zenadmin

Writers:

Again, my sincere apologies for the last-minute cancellation yesterday. All I can say is that life happens and it doesn’t happen according to schedule. That’s the stuff stories are made of, yes? All is handled, and life will go on.

Now for writing-focused news:

Our next workshop June 23 and we’ll do an editing check list along with doing feedback and critique. Please bring some work to share.

On July 8 we have special author guest speaker. Regional Author Sharol Louise will come and speak to the group. If you attend any workshop this summer, please attend this one.

July 22 will be our last workshop of the summer. I’ve learned a few more things since the last time we focused on this in a workshop regarding online personas and building platforms. As is our core, we’ll be doing some feedback and critique time. Please bring some work to share.

August we’re on summer sabbatical. Enjoy the weather, good times with family and friends and get ready for some changes in the group come fall.

Beginning in September our workshops will moved to once a month and on the third Saturday of the month. Therefore, Sept. 20th will be our first of the new schedule. We’ll meet at the North Bend Library Meeting room, still. Time is from 10:30 a.m. to Noon. Hope this schedule allows everyone to participate more often and regularly. Be ready with work to share for feedback and critique, as always.

Your prompt is to put all these dates down on your calendar and make writing a priority in your life. We give you permission.

Now your moment of Writing Zen:

“Our animal companions love us unconditionally. They are our great teachers.” ~ Julia Cameron

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What did you Write today?
~Casz

Casondra Brewster
Moderator/Founder
Sno Valley Writes!
Helping Writers Reach New Literary Peaks Since 2008
http://www.snovalleywrites.org
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“But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.” ~ Lord Byron

Weekly Writing Prompt — April 9, 2014 Edition

April 9, 2014Weekly Writing Promptagent list, book review, SnoValley Writes!, work shop, Writing Zenadmin

Warm April Greetings To You:

The work shop last night was another intimate affair. Those that attended got some juicy details on book reviews — the how, the why, the where, and the who, of course.

I’m missing many of you. But we can’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’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.

If there is a topic you would like covered in the work shops, please let me know and I’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 “How to be on an agent’s MUST HAVE list.”

Today’s prompt is a more traditional prompt. I’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.

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?

Go. Write. Don’t worry about editing, punctuation, spelling, none of it. The goal is to just get the words down.

Don’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.

Writers Write. So, go write.

And now your moment of Writing Zen:

“One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.” ~ Henry Miller

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What did you Write today?
~Casz

“But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.” ~ Lord Byron

Weekly Writing Prompt — July 3, 2013 Edition

July 3, 2013Weekly Writing Promptcleaning your desk, desk of life, journaling, tackling an undesired task, writing work session, Writing Zenadmin

Writers:

Happy Summer!

For those that missed the messages over last week: Writing Work Sessions are on suspension until the autumn. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Also, if you’re wanting to get involved in the booth for the Festival at Mount Si, please contact Vicky, her Email is in the “to” line.

Okay, now that the administrative minutia is over….

It’s time to clean our desks, both literally and metaphorically. What do we keep on our physical desk and the desk of our life that we don’t need? What’s something that needs our attention but has languished in a desk drawer, or worse, right on top?

Today’s prompt is to clean our physical desks. Take 15 minutes and clean off the space where we “work.” Once it’s neat and tidy (not perfect — we want progress, not perfection), then take a few moments to write in our journal about any task, project, situation that needs our attention. Perhaps the journaling will give us motivation to actually tackle the project. Perhaps if solutions were unknown they can become known. Regardless, figure out what’s draining our creative energy and patch that hole with a bit of introspection and journaling…then maybe, action. Yes?

Get to cleaning!

Now your moment of Writing Zen:

“Literature — creative literature — unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.” ~Gertrude Stein

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What did you Write today?
~Casz

“But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.” ~ Lord Byron

Weekly Writing Prompt — March 12, 2012 Edition

March 7, 2012Weekly Writing PromptShadow Artist, Word Jazz, writer's cafe, Writing Zencasz

Good day all!

I hope this finds you digging deep into your creativity and producing lots of stories, art, experimental dishes, whatever!

Speaking of experimental dishes, today’s prompt talks about paying attention to our shadow artist. You know the things you do instead of writing or creating? For me, it’s cooking and baking. Do you know what your shadow artist is? If not, sit down and think about it. Meditate or do some stream-of-consciousness writing to figure it out. Chances are you already know what it is. I’m not talking about the laundry or chasing kids or cutting the lawn or poking around the internet. I’m talking about what you do when you’ve got the time to just create. What do you do to fulfill that need inside of you to create? What is the one thing you find yourself doing instead of writing?

Really examine it. Figure it out. Then write a story where that is the enemy. It may be a very silly story — can you imagine a life where cooking was like a drug addiction? Yes, that’s what I mean. You or your character have to avoid that particular activity on threat of jail or death or …whatever awful thing you can inflict upon the shadow artist.

Then reward yourself for writing and go play in your shadow art.

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Those that are participating in Word Jazz & the V3 Journal need to get your bios and photos to Sheri Kennedy (on the to line), today. Just something simple — two or three sentences max — and an author head-and-shoulders shot. Remember, rehearsals start March 13 at 6:30 at Carriage House and every Tuesday following that with an all-hands dress rehearsal on April 3rd. Word Jazz is April 10th at Boxley’s at 7 p.m. Make your reservations now.

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Reminders:

DayTrippers on Fridays continues it’s travelling from place to place and this week will be at the Fall City Road House in Fall City this Friday. 9:30 a.m. until about Noon-30.

Monday Midday Muse will once again commence at 11 a.m. at Toad’s in North Bend.

Tuesday (March 12), Writer’s Cafe is being taken over for Word Jazz rehearsal.

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And now your moment of Writing Zen:

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” ~Anais Nin
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What did you Write today?
~Casz

“But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.” ~ Lord Byron