{"id":14108,"date":"2025-11-18T11:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=14108"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:04:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:04:21","slug":"your-path-to-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/your-path-to-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Path to Success"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"179\" height=\"276\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Blank.BeTheGateway.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14111\" style=\"width:117px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Excerpt from an excellent post by Dan Blank:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>\u201cAs a writer, it can be difficult to find a clear path that leads you to your goals.\u201d \u201cOne of my biggest concerns is that someone has a vision for what they want to write and create, and they justify giving it up. That it\u2019s too hard to publish, so they don\u2019t. That they receive too many rejections, so they give up. That they read marketing is impossible nowadays, so they stop trying.\u201d You don\u2019t have to struggle alone. <a href=\"https:\/\/wegrowmedia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dan Blank<\/a> has answers. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/danblank.substack.com\/p\/we-struggle-alone-we-succeed-together\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">We struggle alone. We succeed together.<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/danblank.substack.com\/p\/we-struggle-alone-we-succeed-together\">\u201d<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/danblank.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Creative Shift<\/a> by Dan Blank, November 7, 2025 \u00a0<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from an excellent post by Dan Blank: \u201cAs a writer, it can be difficult to find a clear path that leads you to your goals.\u201d \u201cOne of my biggest concerns is that someone has a vision for what they want to write and create, and they justify giving it up. That it\u2019s too hard [&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_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":[126],"tags":[1282,2116,2117,1190],"class_list":["post-14108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-write-2","tag-dan-blank","tag-the-creative-shift","tag-wegrowmedia","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\/p43Dj8-3Fy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14108","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=14108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14112,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14108\/revisions\/14112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}