{"id":1415,"date":"2014-06-10T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2014-06-05T20:06:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T03:06:29","slug":"writing-is-like-excavating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/writing-is-like-excavating\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing is like excavating . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing <a title=\"Writing Prompts\" href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?cat=4\" target=\"_blank\">prompts<\/a> on <a title=\"The Write Spot Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Write Spot Blog<\/a> are designed to encourage writing that takes the writer on a journey of discovery.<\/p>\n<p>Our freewrites can refresh our memories and remind us of times past. It&#8217;s like excavating \u2014 digging deep and dredging up memories.<\/p>\n<p>You can start writing very simply \u2014 with pen or pencil and paper or keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>To go deep into your writing \u2014 rest both feet on the floor, rest your hands lightly on your lap or on the table. Take in a deep, nourishing breath and slowly let it out. Another deep breath in and s-l-o-w-l-y release. Sink into your breath and relax on the out breath.<\/p>\n<p>Review the prompt and start writing. If you get stuck and don&#8217;t know what to write next:<\/p>\n<p>~ Write the prompt . . . sometimes re-writing the prompt brings up new ideas.<\/p>\n<p>~ Write &#8220;I remember. . . &#8221; and go from there.<\/p>\n<p>~ Write &#8220;I don&#8217;t remember. . . &#8221; and see where that takes you.<\/p>\n<p>~ Write &#8220;What I really want to say . . . &#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 This is my favorite to inspire deep writing.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Shovel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1416 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Shovel-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Shovel\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Shovel-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Shovel.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Whatever methods you use . . . just write.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing prompts on The Write Spot Blog are designed to encourage writing that takes the writer on a journey of discovery. Our freewrites can refresh our memories and remind us of times past. It&#8217;s like excavating \u2014 digging deep and dredging up memories. You can start writing very simply \u2014 with pen or pencil and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[13,6,105,329,10,16],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-write-2","tag-freewrite","tag-freewrites","tag-just-write","tag-the-write-spot","tag-writing-freely","tag-writing-prompt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-mP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","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=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1420,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}