Steven Pressfield
What made Thermopylae different from every other great battle?
Read MoreThe Minutemen of Lexington and Concord, the sharpshooters on both sides at Gettysburg, the “Greatest Generation” of WWII.
Read MoreI have a friend who runs a literary agency in Hollywood. She represents screenwriters. I was having lunch with her a few weeks ago and I asked her, “Is there any one mistake you find your writers making over and over?”
Read MoreI’ve been doing a video series on social media called “The Warrior Archetype.” One of the points I’m trying to make is that exterior virtues that we often associate with soldiers and physical combatants can also be called upon by you and me as we fight the interior “war of art.”
Read MoreYou turn fifteen and (if you’re a guy) you suddenly want to put on a helmet and beat your buddies’ brains out on the football field, drive fast, hang with your homies, and blow things up.
Read MoreI was watching Shakespeare’s Henry V the other night (the Kenneth Branagh film version from 1989) and it got me thinking about historical fiction and why I write it. At least one of the reasons.
Read MoreWe’re getting deep today, exploring the great psychologist Carl Jung’s concept of the Collective Unconscious and the archaic “super-personalities” that dwell there — the Archetypes.
Read More2500 years ago, the Persian king Xerxes, while invading Greece with an army of two million men (according to Herodotus), confronted the defending Greeks, led by 300 Spartan warriors, at a narrow pass called Thermopylae.
Read MoreLast week we explored the story concept of
Read MoreLycurgus was the founder of Sparta. The first thing he did was outlaw money. He wanted his people to pursue virtue instead.
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