{"id":7791,"date":"2022-05-09T06:18:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T13:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=7791"},"modified":"2022-05-09T06:18:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T13:18:16","slug":"for-the-good-of-the-writing-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/for-the-good-of-the-writing-order\/","title":{"rendered":"For the Good of the Writing Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-7791\" data-postid=\"7791\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-7791 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>Over the weekend I taught my first writing workshop in almost two years. I was nervous before it began but after we got it going, found the groove. What a fantastic and eclectic group of writers! I met some incredible new people and I believe our exercises and discussions energized all of us to fire up our passions for our current projects. I know it did for my writing about the homeless and that came to me in the form of one sentence. Sometimes that&#8217;s all it takes. Below is a list of thoughts I shared to conclude the workshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some final thoughts to conclude the writing workshop:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Support local writers by reading their print and digital publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If a writer&#8217;s words move you, let the writer know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stock your local street library. Choose something to read from a street library that you might otherwise never read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a writer, look where no one is looking on a subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider naming a theme song for your current writing project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t rarefy the act of writing. Keep it grounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go back through your old writing. Something new will emerge with this material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Support open mics in the best manner you see fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Try writing in long hand every now and then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Challenge your own assumptions or dynamite them to smithereens and then start writing from there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lurking inside every dilapidated local history museum is a great story ready to be discovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go to the beaver for a model of writing industry and architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Publish your ideas in print in interesting publications and distribute them in street libraries, laundromats, community gardens and homeless encampments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Support your local bookstores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Submit writing to trade publications and local newspapers and newsletters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ass to chair is the only way to get the work done.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend I taught my first writing workshop in almost two years. I was nervous before it began but after we got it going, found the groove. What a fantastic and eclectic group of writers! I met some incredible new people and I believe our exercises and discussions energized all of us to fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-writing","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7794,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7791\/revisions\/7794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}