{"id":11419,"date":"2022-03-07T13:40:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T20:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=11419"},"modified":"2024-04-10T08:56:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T15:56:35","slug":"writing-is-magical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/writing-is-magical\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing is magical"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1017\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Photo-by-Robin-Hewett-Jeffers-1024x1017.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11283\" style=\"width:256px;height:254px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Photo-by-Robin-Hewett-Jeffers-1024x1017.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Photo-by-Robin-Hewett-Jeffers-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Photo-by-Robin-Hewett-Jeffers-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Photo-by-Robin-Hewett-Jeffers-768x763.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Photo-by-Robin-Hewett-Jeffers.jpg 1221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by Robin Hewett Jeffers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Writing is magical. Take some blank pages, write or type on them, and as if by magic, a story appears. It may be an incomplete story and it may feel fragmented, but it\u2019s the beginning of Your story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Writing can be healing, especially when you write what you really want to say, rather than listing what you did that day, journal style. &nbsp;The most magical writing is when you get so involved in your writing that you lose track of time, you lose track of where you are and even, who you are!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The process of writing can be therapeutic. With this deep writing, you may experience a release of emotions, clearing the air, and seeing old things in a new way. \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/publications.php\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/publications.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cThe Write Spot to Jumpstart Your Writing: Connections.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/personal-essay-as-therapy\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/personal-essay-as-therapy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Personal Essay as Therapy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/category\/just-write-2\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/category\/just-write-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Just Write!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#amwriting #justwrite #iamawriter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing is magical. Take some blank pages, write or type on them, and as if by magic, a story appears. It may be an incomplete story and it may feel fragmented, but it\u2019s the beginning of Your story. Writing can be healing, especially when you write what you really want to say, rather than listing [&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":[113,343,1190],"class_list":["post-11419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-write-2","tag-personal-essay","tag-writers-forum","tag-writing-freely-just-write-writing-prompts-the-write-spot-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-2Yb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11419","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=11419"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13179,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11419\/revisions\/13179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}