{"id":5543,"date":"2019-05-16T12:06:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T16:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/?p=5543"},"modified":"2019-05-29T09:52:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T13:52:00","slug":"why-writing-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/writing\/why-writing-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Writing Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_3504.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_3504-450x470.jpg\" alt=\"Two toddlers with bubble wands\" width=\"250\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_3504-450x470.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_3504-300x313.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_3504-250x261.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_3504.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Recently, I was invited to join the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwp.org\/cs\/public\/print\/doc\/about\/writers_council.csp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Writers Council<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwp.org\/cs\/public\/print\/doc\/about.csp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Writing Project<\/a>, and for this I was asked to state why I believe writing is important. It&#8217;s a worthy question, and I chewed it over.<\/p>\n<p><em>As I see it, three facets of writing matter: the original act of getting down a first draft, the revising puzzle, and the chance that a final result might move a reader. They\u2019re intertwined, of course, but the real power lies in those first two stages. When we create and deepen our ideas on paper, we discover who we are. We fine-tune our thinking and prove we deserve to exist. Such endeavor is bedrock for saving the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I speak of saving the world, I mean preserving and liberating it for our children and grandchildren. I fully believe that writing will help get us there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I was invited to join the Writers Council of the National Writing Project, and for this I was asked to state why I believe writing is important. It&#8217;s a worthy question, and I chewed it over. As I see it, three facets of writing matter: the original act of getting down a first draft, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[871,37],"class_list":["post-5543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-hope","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5547,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions\/5547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}