{"id":1962,"date":"2010-10-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2010-10-28T14:15:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T19:15:14","slug":"do-something-scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2010\/10\/29\/do-something-scary\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Something Scary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"A creepy skeleton.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/images\/skeleton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"364\" \/>It&#8217;s two days until the scariest holiday: Halloween. (And the <a title=\"Link to The Juggling Writer article about the best thing about Halloween.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2009\/10\/31\/the-best-thing-about-halloween\/\">birthday of my favorite person<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Boo!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done a couple scary things this month: I started <a title=\"Link to the Hell Comes With Wood Paneled Doors podcast.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.roadtripfromhell.com\">podcasting<\/a>, and I started freelancing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written about why podcasting was scary for me, <a title=\"Link to The Juggling Writer article about reading out loud.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2010\/10\/06\/how-to-read-out-loud\/\">here<\/a>. Freelancing is something I&#8217;ve thought about doing, so when a couple opportunities came along, I took them. (<a title=\"Link to The Juggling Writer article about using a period of unemployment to your advantage.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2009\/12\/29\/backing-it-up\/\">Unemployment<\/a> can be a great kick in the rear to get you to try something you may have otherwise put off.)<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Scare Yourself<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In honor of Halloween, I hope you&#8217;ll do something scary with your writing. Maybe write that one thing you keep putting off because you&#8217;re not sure you&#8217;re good enough to tackle it right now. Submit something if the thought of rejection frightens you. Stand up in front of a group of people and speak.<\/p>\n<p>Just do <em>something<\/em> that scares the hell out of you.<\/p>\n<p>The more you do things that scare you, the more you realize there was never really a reason to be scared in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s two days until the scariest holiday: Halloween. (And the birthday of my favorite person.) Boo! I&#8217;ve done a couple scary things this month: I started podcasting, and I started freelancing. I&#8217;ve written about why podcasting was scary for me, here. Freelancing is something I&#8217;ve thought about doing, so when a couple opportunities came along, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[24,59],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}