{"id":1481,"date":"2014-06-19T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2014-06-18T15:19:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T22:19:12","slug":"i-went-deep-into-storytelling-mode-becca-lawton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/i-went-deep-into-storytelling-mode-becca-lawton\/","title":{"rendered":"I went deep into storytelling mode \u2014 Becca Lawton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s quote is from<a title=\"Write Free\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Write-Free-Attracting-Creative-Life\/dp\/0966186788\" target=\"_blank\"> <em>Write Free &#8211; Attracting the Creative Life<\/em><\/a> by <a title=\"Rebecca Lawton\" href=\"http:\/\/beccalawton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Lawton<\/a> and<a title=\"Jordan E. Rosenfeld\" href=\"http:\/\/jordanrosenfeld.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Jordan E. Rosenfeld<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca wrote:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wrote another personal essay, in part with the column in mind but mostly with the intention of simply telling my story. There was a message I wanted to convey in the piece: one of loss and sadness, but also of triumph and survival. Because I had taken my focus off publication while writing, I went deep into storytelling mode. Much of the writing for the piece was done in subconscious writing fashion. When I finished a decent draft, I went outside to water my flower garden. I felt a certainty that hadn&#8217;t been there before. the essay was so good, so moving. I knew it would be published \u2014 if not in the target column, then certainly elsewhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Wand.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1482 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Wand-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Wand\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Wand-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Wand.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Note from Marlene:<\/strong> What strikes me as being important in this passage is when Becca let go of the thought of publishing, she was able to go &#8220;deep into storytelling mode.&#8221; That&#8217;s my wish for you.<\/p>\n<p>Write whatever you want to write. Don&#8217;t worry about a thing. . . don&#8217;t think about publishing, don&#8217;t think about anyone looking over your shoulder. No judging. No criticizing. Just write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s quote is from Write Free &#8211; Attracting the Creative Life by Rebecca Lawton and Jordan E. Rosenfeld. Rebecca wrote: &#8220;I wrote another personal essay, in part with the column in mind but mostly with the intention of simply telling my story. There was a message I wanted to convey in the piece: one of [&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":[3],"tags":[482,134,105,437,137,490,10],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration","tag-becca-lawton","tag-jordan-e-rosenfeld","tag-just-write","tag-rebecca-lawton","tag-write-free","tag-write-free-attracting-the-creative-life","tag-writing-freely"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-nT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","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=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}