Steven Pressfield
First, a quick note re: the June 8 Class/Retreat I wrote about last week. It’s been pushed back to September. Permit issues for the site. Ugh.
Read MoreExcept one time—in Nashville in 2019—I’ve never taught a live class.
Read MoreThere’s another reason why plunging in can help us more than outlining or doing a treatment or engaging in some other prep action.
Read MoreHow do you find your writer’s voice? A lot of humbug has been written on this subject. The myth is that in finding that voice, the writer achieves a kind of personal enlightenment. She discovers “who she really is.”
Read MoreBefore 1972, women were not allowed to compete in U.S. Polo Assn. games. Sue Sally Hale didn’t go for that.
Read MoreI had a meditation teacher once who instructed us, her students, to
Read MoreThe idea of a practice is not a particularly Western one.
Read MoreA further update from the front … I reported a few weeks ago about the experience of massive self-doubt on a new fiction piece I’m just starting. This has been superseded in the past week or two by a period that I’m sure we’re all depressingly familiar with:
Read MoreGetting back to our series on Having a Practice …
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