{"id":5587,"date":"2016-06-06T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=5587"},"modified":"2016-05-31T16:32:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T23:32:22","slug":"weave-journal-discoveries-into-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/weave-journal-discoveries-into-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Weave journal discoveries into stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you &#8220;keep a journal,&#8221; you can weave some entries into stories. Give your fictional characters\u00a0 personality traits, attitudes or habits discovered in journal writing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Hand-writing-in-journal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5590 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Hand-writing-in-journal-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Hand writing in journal\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Each day write about what surprised you, what moved you, what inspired you. Even if you think you have nothing to say, sit down and start writing.<\/p>\n<p>Write about the worst thing that happened to you and the best thing that happened to you each day.<\/p>\n<p>Just write!<\/p>\n<p>Inspired from an article in the December 2000 issue of Good Housekeeping, &#8220;The Question Journal,&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rachelremen.com\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Naomi Remen<\/a>, M.D., author of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/My-Grandfathers-Blessings-Strength-Belonging\/dp\/1573228567\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1464736819&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=My+Grandfather%27s+Blessings%3A+Stories+of+Strength%2C+Refuge%2C+and+Belonging\" target=\"_blank\">My Grandfather&#8217;s Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you &#8220;keep a journal,&#8221; you can weave some entries into stories. Give your fictional characters\u00a0 personality traits, attitudes or habits discovered in journal writing. Each day write about what surprised you, what moved you, what inspired you. Even if you think you have nothing to say, sit down and start writing. Write about the [&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":[947,945,944,946],"class_list":["post-5587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-write-2","tag-and-belonging","tag-my-grandfathers-blessings-stories-of-strength","tag-rachel-naomi-remen","tag-refuge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-1s7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587","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=5587"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5592,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions\/5592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}