{"id":10969,"date":"2021-10-05T06:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T13:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=10969"},"modified":"2021-09-28T13:39:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T20:39:41","slug":"passion-is-the-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/passion-is-the-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Passion is the engine . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/HandsCampfire.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10973\" width=\"293\" height=\"297\"\/><figcaption>Photo by Thirdman on Pexels<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.robertcrais.com\/bio.htm\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.robertcrais.com\/bio.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Crais<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Passion is the engine that has to fire the whole thing. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Successful writing is all about passion, to create a world that\u2019s full and complete and engrosses the reader. First and foremost, the reader is you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re writing about a world in which you need to research to learn about it, then feel passionate about it. If you\u2019re not passionate about what you\u2019re writing, you\u2019re writing the wrong thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You want heat, you want fire. That&#8217;s what we gather around and warm our hands with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Excerpted from \u201cFired Up,\u201d by Jessica Strawser, Writer\u2019s Digest, Nov\/Dec 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#amwriting #justwrite  #creativewriting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Crais: Passion is the engine that has to fire the whole thing. &nbsp; Successful writing is all about passion, to create a world that\u2019s full and complete and engrosses the reader. First and foremost, the reader is you. If you\u2019re writing about a world in which you need to research to learn about it, [&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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-2QV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10969","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=10969"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10975,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10969\/revisions\/10975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}