{"id":595,"date":"2016-09-06T20:36:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T00:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/?p=595"},"modified":"2016-09-12T20:47:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T00:47:45","slug":"595","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/?p=595","title":{"rendered":"Stuff I Forgot To Tell You On The First Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things I Forgot To Tell You On Day One:<\/p>\n<p>    I want you to keep a writing journal, and write in it every day. Set yourself a goal (or a limit, if need be), and I recommend you make it at a regular time &#8211; when you first wake up, before you knock off for the night, whatever works. It can be a journal of your day, it can be trying out an idea that came to you, or it can be based on:<br \/>\n       <center><a href=\"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/?cat=30\">http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/?cat=30<\/a><\/center>  <\/p>\n<p>This is my website. I will publish a prompt every day. You can use it, or ignore it, as you wish.<\/p>\n<p>    FOR NEXT CLASS:  Is there a dilemma you&#8217;re having with something you&#8217;re writing? A sticky situation, a character &#8211; or setting &#8211; or action &#8211; you can&#8217;t quite get right? Or maybe just something you&#8217;ve started on and would welcome general input? Bring something along to share, and we&#8217;ll try to help each other out.<\/p>\n<p>    Read This Stuff (pace yourself) and Think About Imagery:<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/104\/76.html\">fog<\/a><br \/>\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryarchive.org\/poem\/elwood-organic-fruit-and-vegetable-shop\">the elwood organic fruit and vegetable shopt<\/a><br \/>\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/106\/246.html\">ozymandias<\/a><br \/>\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/145\/ww260.html\">I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud<\/a><br \/>\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/198\/1.html\">The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next week, we&#8217;ll talk about how images are evoked (among other things).<\/p>\n<p>I really enjoyed meeting all of you this week, and I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing what develops during our semester together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things I Forgot To Tell You On Day One: I want you to keep a writing journal, and write in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[30,32,27],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}