We’re so deep into our project now that we can’t turn back … and yet the end is still so far away it seems impossible to conceive of reaching it.

We try to recharge our will by flashing back to our original commitment, our dream, our vision. But these are so far behind us we can barely remember them.

As David Mamet says, “It’s hard to remember that you set out to drain the swamp when you’re up to your ass in alligators.”

DO THE WORK

Steve shows you the predictable Resistance points that every writer hits in a work-in-progress and then shows you how to deal with each one of these sticking points. This book shows you how to keep going with your work.

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THE AUTHENTIC SWING

A short book about the writing of a first novel: for Steve, The Legend of Bagger Vance. Having failed with three earlier attempts at novels, here's how Steve finally succeeded.

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NOBODY WANTS TO READ YOUR SH*T

Steve shares his "lessons learned" from the trenches of the five different writing careers—advertising, screenwriting, fiction, nonfiction, and self-help. This is tradecraft. An MFA in Writing in 197 pages.

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TURNING PRO

Amateurs have amateur habits. Pros have pro habits. When we turn pro, we give up the comfortable life but we find our power. Steve answers the question, "How do we overcome Resistance?"

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3 Comments

  1. Simon Townley on March 4, 2026 at 1:52 am

    Comments seem to be closed on your previous post, concerning Christopher Columbus. I meant to post sooner, but resistance got the better of me! I wanted to mention that the whole story of Columbus is, apparently, bunkum. He did not set out to prove the world was round at all. Everyone knew the world was round. The ancient Greeks knew it, and even calculated how big it was. The Romans knew it, they learnt it from the Greeks. And the people of medieval Europe knew it too. There is, I’m told, virtually no evidence anywhere that people in the Middle Ages thought the world was flat. They knew it was round and how big it was. They knew it would be an immense and impossible journey from the shores of western Europe the lands of the far east, because as far as they knew it was all open, empty ocean. Columbus knew the world was round, but he was sure that the world was actually much smaller than everyone thought. That was the big idea he set out to prove. He was wrong, but he did find the American continents, so it wasn’t a complete disaster.
    My source for all this? A book written by a quantum physicist called Carlo Rovelli, who also has a passionate interests in history and early philosophy. He wrote a biography on Anaximander , one of the pre-Socratic philosophers.
    I’ve read lots of his books. Unfortunately, I can’t remember which one contains the story about Columbus.

  2. Tolis on March 4, 2026 at 2:16 am

    Thank you so much dear Steve.

    We all, or many of us, pass through the hell before the dawn. It’s not dark, it’s horrible.

    No, flash backs are useless. They try to give life taking it from the past, but the past is never alive, so they are fake zombies. The past is always dead, even the best of it. Socrates and Plato and those other crazy men -and women- back then are not the ones who create science today. Even the inspiration is not theirs, but of the living bodies which turn it on today. They created it while alive, but now they are none but shadows, no, no shadows, today they are nothing.

    Today the scientists make science. And there is no tomorrow.

    The end of the book can only be done today. It can’t be done tomorrow. And it’s not an end. It’s just a particle.

  3. Jackie on March 4, 2026 at 2:26 am

    This entire post including the photo was spot on today. Exactly where I am in my book, my characters are in their journey, and the working title for now is The Forest. It’s spooky, Steve. Thanks.
    Wishing all a great week. Don’t let the alligators stop you.

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