My First (And Only) Writing Course

By Steven Pressfield | |

I want to alert you guys to the first and only Writing Course I’ve ever taught. You may remember me talking about this last year. (We held the actual live event in September in Malibu, California.)

Dozens of friends wrote in at the time. “Oh, I wish I could go! I live too far away!” “I’m so sorry to miss it!”

Well, you can go now.

We videoed the full day’s event as it happened. I and my partners Roda and Kriss have been working on this package ever since.

The video version of the “Silent Writing Retreat” is available now. Today.

Here’s the link for full information and to sign up:

https://silentwritingretreat.com/steven-pressfield/

I’ll be writing more about this in the coming days (for starters I’m doing an Instagram Live TODAY at 1:00 PM Pacific) but here’s the short version of what the course is about.

Oh, I almost forgot …

A special VIP feature is the opportunity to book a half-hour, one-on-one ZOOM coaching call with me. (More on that later as well.)

The essence of the September event was summed up in its subtitle: OVERCOMING RESISTANCE. The medium was me onstage for the whole day, with breaks for everyone in attendance—about sixty people—to do their own writing in silence. Everyone checked their phones at the door. There was no talking, except by me. No socializing. No chit-chat.

I spoke pretty much non-stop, delivering a distillation of everything I’ve written in The War of Art, Turning Pro and other books … as well as telling in excruciating detail the story of my own journey as a writer—from driving a taxi in New York City and tractor-trailers up and down the East Coast to ten years as a C-level Hollywood screenwriter to thirty years and twenty-something books as a writer of fiction and nonfiction.

Steve with Roda Ahmed, who produced the Writing Course event and video

If you missed the live event, this is your chance to see and hear it all—in a form you can replay and return to as many times as you wish.

Here again is the link for full details and to sign up:

https://silentwritingretreat.com/steven-pressfield/

For more, join me today at 1:00 PM Pacific for an Instagram Live.

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5 Comments

  1. Tolis on May 21, 2025 at 4:14 am

    Thank you SO much dear Steve. I will get the event no matter what.

    I don’t have money right now, it’s one of the toughest periods. So I will gather them patiently, time is always on my side these 45 years, and get it as soon as possible.

    Even if it’s My duty and responsibility to break Resistance, this video will be priceless. Equal in importance to what the staff of Gandalf meant to him. I’m sitting there with all you.

    By the way, know (for your happiness) that I’m now fighting the last part of the book. Yes, the day would come. And the sky is darkened before me, so this makes it even darker. As it should be.

    Break the rules.



    • Jackie on May 21, 2025 at 5:47 am

      Hang in there Tolis. I wish for your success. I’m here beside you. We are a fellowship.



      • Tolis on May 21, 2025 at 8:26 am

        The Fellowship of our Ring, my dear Jackie <3



  2. FERNANDO BERDI on May 21, 2025 at 7:38 am

    Ótimo! 👏👏👏



  3. Miia Pollanen on May 21, 2025 at 11:26 am

    Im in. From the moment I read half of the post. Just starting the course and already got insights and breakthroughs! Wow – thank you thank you thank you 💛💛💛💛 Can highly recommend

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