{"id":2464,"date":"2017-06-29T01:44:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T06:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2464"},"modified":"2017-06-13T17:53:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T22:53:14","slug":"the-best-writing-often-comes-at-a-simple-writing-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2017\/06\/the-best-writing-often-comes-at-a-simple-writing-event\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Writing Often Comes at a Simple Writing Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some of the best-written pieces were done &#8220;on the spur of the moment&#8221; at a writing event. That includes week-long events and one-hour events.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The summary above is true in my experience.<\/p>\n<p>I have read pieces written in five-minute exercises, &#8220;Okay, everyone write. I will ring the bell in five minutes or so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have read masterpieces written in one-hour exercises, &#8220;Okay, everyone write. I will call you back in an hour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why? Okay, here is a brilliant insight. Some persons attend a writing event ready to burst. They have years worth of writing inside them. They settle into the event, and someone says the magic word, &#8220;Write.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s about it folks. The magic word carries with it, &#8220;(I give you permission to) Write.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A-h-h-h-h-h. Permission. Safety. Release. It flows. Magic.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;teacher&#8221; at the writing event is actually the &#8220;giver of permission,&#8221; and nothing more. Want to appear to be a genius? Host a writing event, give permission, and look brilliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Some of the best-written pieces were done &#8220;on the spur of the moment&#8221; at a writing event. That includes week-long events and one-hour events. The summary above is true in my experience. I have read pieces written in five-minute exercises, &#8220;Okay, everyone write. I will ring the bell in five minutes or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,231,5],"tags":[166,232,128],"class_list":["post-2464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-risk","category-trust","category-writing","tag-risk","tag-trust","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2465,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions\/2465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}