{"id":165,"date":"2007-01-26T17:20:02","date_gmt":"2007-01-27T01:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/the-future-article-you%e2%80%99ve-already-written\/"},"modified":"2007-01-26T17:20:36","modified_gmt":"2007-01-27T01:20:36","slug":"the-future-article-you%e2%80%99ve-already-written","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/the-future-article-you%e2%80%99ve-already-written\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future Article You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve Already Written"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Originally published in LLL US Western Division\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <\/em>Connections <em>#75, January\/February 1998<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Many of us agonize over finding just the right topic or expanding an idea into an article for the Area Leaders\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Letter (ALL), a memo, Connections, or another La Leche League publication. Waiting and hoping for inspiration can be illusive and sporadic at best. However, he future article you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re looking for may be in something you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve already written.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->With expansion and development, the following sources might be the starting point for that article you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re trying to write.<\/p>\n<p>1.    <strong>Your letters of correspondence<\/strong> to other Leaders may contain nuggets that can be developed into an article. Be sure to protect the privacy of your letters\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 recipients by changing or deleting details and making situations generic.<\/p>\n<p>2.    An <strong>evaluation form you filled in<\/strong> (for a meeting, workshop, conference, etc.) may have a discussion of a conflict, challenge, or situation that could be expanded into a fuller exploration of a topic. Again, you will need to edit for privacy.<\/p>\n<p>3.    A <strong>handout you prepared<\/strong> for a Chapter Meeting or District Workshop can be fleshed out into an article.<\/p>\n<p>4.    The <strong>notes for a talk you presented <\/strong>at a meeting, workshop, or conference could be an outline for your writing.<\/p>\n<p>5.    A <strong>paragraph or two from another article you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve written<\/strong> may suggest a more in-depth treatment. Articles you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve already written may contain several ideas for new ones.<\/p>\n<p>You can mine your own writing for more subject matter in future articles. With discretion and creativity, your own words may be just the inspiration you were looking for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in LLL US Western Division\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Connections #75, January\/February 1998 Many of us agonize over finding just the right topic or expanding an idea into an article for the Area Leaders\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Letter (ALL), a memo, Connections, or another La Leche League publication. Waiting and hoping for inspiration can be illusive and sporadic at best. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-la-leche-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}