{"id":10755,"date":"2021-08-02T06:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=10755"},"modified":"2021-07-30T12:40:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T19:40:51","slug":"we-are-all-storytellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/we-are-all-storytellers\/","title":{"rendered":"We are all storytellers."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Writers-path.creativejourney.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10756\" width=\"251\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Writers-path.creativejourney.png 372w, https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Writers-path.creativejourney-208x300.png 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are all storytellers. We are constantly telling each other about our lives\u2014what happened to us. What we saw, what we thought. We share news of dramatic events in our lives and the lives of our friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We tell jokes. We share dreams and memories. Starting with these kinds of \u2018tellings\u2019 can be a good way to begin our practice of writing stories.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Writers-Path-Guidebook-Creative-Exercises\/dp\/1580081606\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=the+writers+path+a+guidebook+for+your+creative&amp;qid=1627673527&amp;sr=8-1\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Writers-Path-Guidebook-Creative-Exercises\/dp\/1580081606\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=the+writers+path+a+guidebook+for+your+creative&amp;qid=1627673527&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">The Writer&#8217;s Path: A Guidebook for Your Creative Journey : Exercises, Essays, and Examples <\/a>by Todd Walton and Mindy Toomay<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/books-on-writing\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/books-on-writing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">More books on writing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe are all storytellers. We are constantly telling each other about our lives\u2014what happened to us. What we saw, what we thought. We share news of dramatic events in our lives and the lives of our friends. We tell jokes. We share dreams and memories. Starting with these kinds of \u2018tellings\u2019 can be a good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126],"tags":[1619,105,1623,1620,1622],"class_list":["post-10755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-write-2","tag-essays","tag-just-write","tag-mindy-toomay","tag-the-writers-path-a-guidebook-for-your-creative-journey-exercises","tag-todd-walton"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-2Nt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10757,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10755\/revisions\/10757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}