{"id":632,"date":"2023-01-02T10:38:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T10:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lizacameronwasser.de\/?p=632"},"modified":"2023-01-02T10:38:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T10:38:13","slug":"writing-as-a-way-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lizacameronwasser.de\/?p=632","title":{"rendered":"Writing as a Way of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lizacameronwasser.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/prism.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-633\" width=\"195\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lizacameronwasser.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/prism.png 512w, https:\/\/www.lizacameronwasser.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/prism-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lizacameronwasser.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/prism-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.lizacameronwasser.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/prism-70x70.png 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A few years ago I listened to a Masterclass with David Baldacci called Mystery and Thriller Writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had a lot of good things to say, but the thing that struck me was when he said that writing isn&#8217;t a job or an occupation or a hobby. It&#8217;s a way of life. He talked about &#8220;the writing prism&#8221; and how writers walk through the world, not seeing what is, but what could be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And example: A normal person walks down the street and sees a woman with a shopping bag coming toward him. A car parks and a man gets out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The writer elaborates the scene: The car driver is the woman&#8217;s estranged grown son, who has come home after two decades&#8217; absence, to tell the woman something that will change both their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do this all the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All. The. Time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone around me is having heart attacks on the bus or falling in the river or getting chased by a wild boar in the woods or getting proposed to at the Christmas market. Life around me is very dramatic. At least inside my head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other artists probably do this, too. &#8220;Look at that. That&#8217;s a watercolor if I ever saw one!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, tell me, fellow writers and artists, do you look at the world through a creative prism?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago I listened to a Masterclass with David Baldacci called Mystery and Thriller Writing. He had a lot of good things to say, but the thing that struck me was when he said that writing isn&#8217;t a job or an occupation or &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20],"tags":[12,21],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indie-author","category-the-writing-life","tag-indie-author","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lizacameronwasser.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lizacameronwasser.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lizacameronwasser.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lizacameronwasser.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lizacameronwasser.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lizacameronwasser.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/www.lizacameronwasser.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lizacameronwasser.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lizacameronwasser.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lizacameronwasser.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}