{"id":349,"date":"2019-09-12T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/katrina.effexhost.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/12\/writing-prompt-thursday-speaking-up\/"},"modified":"2019-09-12T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T12:30:00","slug":"writing-prompt-thursday-speaking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/12\/writing-prompt-thursday-speaking-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Prompt Thursday : Speaking Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgdfuZ-959isNFv-fZ6IE9ys4yRYhHzh8QOwhXLrJXsnc3uwV6CV8q8Fbq8nYStJW0DbghR8p9d65syRuv-D0Vy2ztBHE1pgISuDjJZjbD9rlHt2d71RKSsTRIF7pSEoKsNGlAZVIF_0KUu\/s1600\/91bASyarzeL._SY606_.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"606\" data-original-width=\"413\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgdfuZ-959isNFv-fZ6IE9ys4yRYhHzh8QOwhXLrJXsnc3uwV6CV8q8Fbq8nYStJW0DbghR8p9d65syRuv-D0Vy2ztBHE1pgISuDjJZjbD9rlHt2d71RKSsTRIF7pSEoKsNGlAZVIF_0KUu\/s320\/91bASyarzeL._SY606_.jpg\" width=\"218\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for another writing prompt! I know it seems just a little bit silly, but I&#8217;m so excited for these. I haven&#8217;t had a lot of time for writing lately as my editing business takes off so these are perfect little bites for me right now.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Today&#8217;s prompt:<br \/>Have you ever spoken up when you saw something going on that was wrong? Were you scared? What ended up happening?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to take the time to really sit and think about this one but the one rule that &#8220;the man&#8221; has about this book is that I&#8217;m not allowed to think about it. I have to just sit and write.<\/p>\n<p>So, part of me wants to just answer no and move on, but I feel as if that may need a little bit more explanation. As some people know, I live in a pretty rural area and I don&#8217;t get out a whole lot. Because of that, I probably don&#8217;t have many opportunities to see people being &#8220;bad&#8221;.&nbsp; The things that pop into my mind all have to do with teenagers&#8230;like correcting my youngest son&#8217;s friend on how he was treating his mother. Was I afraid? Nah&#8230;he was like one of my own kids and knew if I was correcting him, he needed to listen.<\/p>\n<p>Have there been other times, in other situations? Possibly. I honestly don&#8217;t have a single one popping to mind. I&#8217;d like to think that I&#8217;d speak up without being physically afraid or afraid of repercussions, but I need to be honest. I deal with PTSD from certain things that have happened in my life and I can&#8217;t guarantee that the flight side of things wouldn&#8217;t kick in. I tend to be good in emergencies and situations and then fall apart after so I suspect that would happen. I would be fine in the moment and then after it was all done and everyone was safe, I&#8217;d break down.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm&#8230;turns out that writing without thinking led to some interesting (at least for me) writing.<\/p>\n<p>How do y&#8217;all handle these kinds of situations?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiGdGgW7Cd6Zzoxite3IdenbYYFWBohmSo9GWRoncmhZcfTJSnDLFJFMbxQDhC2vMA11Ir9wV4kUAaMFv_TE48gEP-cld1VGtechyqObIKKoOHDX7-0rrJA2y_ZW8GvoJlOUlsjl65npi-V\/s1600\/katrina-black-n-white.gif\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"47\" data-original-width=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiGdGgW7Cd6Zzoxite3IdenbYYFWBohmSo9GWRoncmhZcfTJSnDLFJFMbxQDhC2vMA11Ir9wV4kUAaMFv_TE48gEP-cld1VGtechyqObIKKoOHDX7-0rrJA2y_ZW8GvoJlOUlsjl65npi-V\/s1600\/katrina-black-n-white.gif\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nIf you like what you&#8217;ve read here, please share it with others using these buttons:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for another writing prompt! I know it seems just a little bit silly, but I&#8217;m so excited for these. I haven&#8217;t had a lot of time for writing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}