{"id":11029,"date":"2016-05-23T12:05:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T02:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=11029"},"modified":"2016-05-23T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T02:05:06","slug":"the-write-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/the-write-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Write Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritetribe.com\/2016\/05\/23\/welcome-to-zena-shapter-founder-of-the-northern-beaches-writers-group\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11030\" src=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Zena-Shapter-Write-Tribe-300x237.png\" alt=\"Zena Shapter Write Tribe\" width=\"500\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Zena-Shapter-Write-Tribe-300x237.png 300w, http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Zena-Shapter-Write-Tribe-768x606.png 768w, http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Zena-Shapter-Write-Tribe-1024x808.png 1024w, http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Zena-Shapter-Write-Tribe.png 1161w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Today I&#8217;m over at <a href=\"http:\/\/thewritetribe.com\/2016\/05\/23\/welcome-to-zena-shapter-founder-of-the-northern-beaches-writers-group\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Write Tribe<\/a>, &#8216;<em>the home of dynamic writers&#8217; groups&#8217;<\/em>, talking about the <a href=\"http:\/\/northernbeacheswritersgroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Beaches Writers&#8217; Group<\/a> \u2013 why I started the group, how it&#8217;s supported my own writing (and sometimes hasn&#8217;t!), challenges, changes and advice for anyone wanting to start their own group. It&#8217;s a brief behind-the-scenes tour of an important side of my writing life, and I hope you&#8217;ll enjoy the read \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to the lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/thewritetribe.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Troxler<\/a> for getting in touch and asking me such fab questions as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What is the best thing about running a group?\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What were some of the challenges of starting the group?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Are there any ongoing challenges in managing the group?\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How is the group structured? What happens prior to meetings\/at the meeting\/after the meeting?\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read my answers, please just <a href=\"http:\/\/thewritetribe.com\/2016\/05\/23\/welcome-to-zena-shapter-founder-of-the-northern-beaches-writers-group\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m over at The Write Tribe, &#8216;the home of dynamic writers&#8217; groups&#8217;, talking about the Northern Beaches Writers&#8217; Group \u2013 why I started the group, how it&#8217;s supported my own writing (and sometimes hasn&#8217;t!), challenges, changes and advice for anyone wanting to start their own group. It&#8217;s a brief\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/the-write-tribe\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[7],"tags":[1508,1510,789,769,197,1511,1509,443,455,975,1506,712,1507],"class_list":["post-11029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writer-advice","tag-critique","tag-dynamic","tag-editing","tag-editor","tag-emerging-writers-festival","tag-group","tag-michelle-troxler","tag-nbwg","tag-northern-beaches-writers-group","tag-sydney","tag-write-tribe","tag-writing","tag-writing-group"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11029"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11046,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11029\/revisions\/11046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}