{"id":1217,"date":"2014-05-13T08:21:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T15:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2014-05-13T08:34:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T15:34:07","slug":"1217","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/1217\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to be a writer? Just write!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Naked, Drunk, and Writing<\/em>, Adair Lara<\/a> writes “I grew up in the San Geronimo Valley . . . a bookstruck little kid sitting on a stump writing stories.”<\/p>\n

She continues with “Writing was easy then. I used my dad’s square carpenter pencil to cover sheet after sheet with stories of dogs that rescued families from a flood or a fire.”<\/p>\n

Note the details: Can you see the carpenter pencil? I see a yellow pencil and I can see that little girl hunched over, earnestly scribbling.<\/p>\n

Adair began her writing career as copyeditor at San Francisco Focus<\/em> magazine. Her friend Cynthia, the production editor, also wanted to be a writer. They started partner writing, swapping freewrites and returning them with the good stuff highlighted in yellow. “That first writing club, as we called it, changed my life. It made me a writer by giving me the confidence to be one.”<\/p>\n

Adair<\/a> has published “some ten books or so, including several collections of columns.” Her work has appeared in many other magazines and newspapers, both in print and online.\u00a0 She is currently a columnist for Grandparents.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Adair teaches writing workshops, which I had the good fortune to attend in the summer of 2009. What a treat!<\/p>\n

How about you? Do you want to write but don’t know how to get started? You can join a writing group in your community, find a partner to exchange writing with, or join an online writing community like this one, The Write Spot Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Lola\"<\/a>Just write!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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