{"id":6369,"date":"2020-02-09T08:07:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T13:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/?p=6369"},"modified":"2020-02-09T08:07:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T13:07:52","slug":"the-benefits-of-a-writing-group-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/the-benefits-of-a-writing-group-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"The Benefits of a Writing Group &#8211; Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Post #295<\/p>\n<p>February 9, 2020<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am sharing a post I wrote some years ago.<\/p>\n<p>I read our story \u00a0over this morning and made some changes to bring it up-to-date.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to hear from you &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Have you experienced being part of a personal and intimate writing group?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to hear your stories, too.<\/p>\n<p>The group I wrote about in this article was a life-long friendship between 4 western Pennsylvania women who shared their lives through poetry.\u00a0 You may leave a comment or send me a private message. Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"LFpAU7IZt1\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/the-benefits-of-a-writers-group\/\">The  Benefits of a  Writer&#8217;s Group<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#8220;The  Benefits of a  Writer&#8217;s Group&#8221; &#8212; Lynda McKinney Lambert\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/the-benefits-of-a-writers-group\/embed\/#?secret=LFpAU7IZt1\" data-secret=\"LFpAU7IZt1\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post #295 February 9, 2020 &nbsp; I am sharing a post I wrote some years ago. I read our story \u00a0over this morning and made some changes to bring it up-to-date. I&#8217;d love to hear from you &#8211; Have you <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/the-benefits-of-a-writing-group-revisited\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trusting-god"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gbwn-1EJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1316,"url":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/the-benefits-of-a-writers-group\/","url_meta":{"origin":6369,"position":0},"title":"The  Benefits of a  Writer&#8217;s Group","author":"Lynda Lambert","date":"September 22, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Walking by Inner Vision \u2013A Personal \u00a0Journal of Faith \u201cBenefits of a Writing Group\u201d \u00a0 Photo by Lynda McKinney Lambert, 1998. 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