Steven Pressfield
When you and I as writers are looking to deliver a Big Moment, we often think it has to come in a rock-em-sock-em, five-star, dyn-o-mite scene in which characters are passionately declaiming at one another, if not firing guns, crashing cars, and blowing up the planet.
Read MoreIn today’s episode, we’ll attempt to bring all the threads of this series together — Spartans and Athenians, Alexander the Great, Arjuna and Krishna, the concept of the Inner War, and evolution of the Archetypes.
Read MoreI was working on a screenplay with director Andy Davis (The Fugitive, Under Siege, Above the Law) when he got an odd, dissatisfied look on his face.
Read MoreIf the human being was born for adversity … and if the Warrior Archetype was implanted within our psyche (or evolved on its own) to assist us in fighting wars … what war should we fight?
Read MoreThe Warrior Archetype is tremendously empowering.
Read MoreWe were talking last week about one of the qualities of the Inciting Incident, the moment in Act One when the story actually STARTS. We said that
Read MoreWhy has the genre of the American Western retained such power generation to generation?
Read MoreI wrote this in Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t:
Read MoreWhat lies beyond the Warrior Archetype? In this episode we revisit the moment in India when Alexander the Great’s army reached the limits of its conquests and turned around for home.
Read MoreOne of the things a writer realizes when she first becomes aware of her own Resistance—her internal, diabolical pull toward self-sabotage—is that it’s a dangerous world … not just “out there,” but “in here.”
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