{"id":12807,"date":"2023-09-16T12:42:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T19:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=12807"},"modified":"2023-09-16T12:42:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T19:42:25","slug":"change-scary-or-exciting-prompt-748","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/change-scary-or-exciting-prompt-748\/","title":{"rendered":"Change . . . Scary or exciting?\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Prompt #748"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Nail-biting.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7876\" width=\"238\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Nail-biting.png 373w, https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Nail-biting-300x178.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Is change scary or exciting for you?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a palpitating heart, sweaty palms, and a fluttering stomach, I changed the name of my Facebook\/Meta Writing Page from &#8220;Writers Forum&#8221; to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JumpstartYourWriting\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JumpstartYourWriting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Marlene Cullen\u2019s Write Spot,&#8221;<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to better reflect what this Facebook page is about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, I wonder, why was I nervous . . . okay . . . scared to do this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think the answer is: Consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn\u2019t know if it would trigger an avalanche of problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was willing to take my changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes you just have to take the plunge and make a change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Writing Prompt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is change scary or exciting?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Or:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes you have to take the plunge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Write about a time you took a chance and made a change. What happened?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#justwrite  #iamawriter   #iamwriting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is change scary or exciting for you? With a palpitating heart, sweaty palms, and a fluttering stomach, I changed the name of my Facebook\/Meta Writing Page from &#8220;Writers Forum&#8221; to: &#8220;Marlene Cullen\u2019s Write Spot,&#8221; to better reflect what this Facebook page is about. But, I wonder, why was I nervous . . . okay . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[4],"tags":[329,1190],"class_list":["post-12807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prompts","tag-the-write-spot","tag-writing-freely-just-write-writing-prompts-the-write-spot-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-3kz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12807"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12811,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12807\/revisions\/12811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}