Steven Pressfield
Here’s another way we can use our own Resistance, jiu-jitsu style, and turn it in our favor.
Read MoreWhen I start a new project, I’m invariably crippled with self-doubt.
Read MoreContinuing our discussion on Resistance “coming second,” i.e. only in response to (and reaction against) a creative Dream … let’s consider what it means when we find ourselves experiencing MASSIVE RESISTANCE to a project we have in mind.
Read MoreWe spoke last week about Resistance “coming second.”
Read MoreOne of the key aspects of Resistance (self-doubt, fear, procrastination, perfectionism, self-sabotage) is that it never arises alone.
Read MoreWhen Shawn Coyne and I were first brainstorming the business concept behind Black Irish Entertainment, our two-man company that publishes The War of Art and its cousins, we wondered just how ambitious we wanted to be.
Read MoreI’ll get notes sometimes from young writers, in which they’ll refer to their “WIP,” i.e. their work-in-progress.
Read MoreI come from down in the valley,
Read MoreThe “Get to ‘I love you’” principle works for tragic endings too. Even if the lovers are torn apart by fate or necessity, if we as storytellers can leave them with a moment where they declare their love, even if it’s silent or doomed … we’ve got something good.
Read MoreIt doesn’t have to be romantic lovers to make this storytelling principle work. It can be friends. It can be enemies.
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