"It's no fun to write. I don't know where people get this notion. I mean, if you're a serious writer, you've got to put a gun to your head to get in the chair. Writing is just, simply, not fun. "... (read more)
"If there is a single more powerful piece of wisdom for any writer, artist, or entrepreneur, I don’t know what it is. Theme. Theme is everything."... (read more)
For the last seven years, Steven Pressfield has published a weekly column called "Writing Wednesdays." If you are a writer, artist, entrepreneur, or anyone trying to do something hard and creative in the world, Pressfield should be your patron saint.... (read more)
We were doing so great. Our project was in high gear, we were almost finished (maybe we actually were finished). Then inevitably... Everything crashes. ... (read more)
What if it sucks? I'll take my lumps and learn my lessons. I'll look to the next book and the one after that. But nothing will stop me from giving this book my all. I will NEVER back off. I will NEVER give the work anything less than 100%. If I go down in flames, so be it. I’ll be back.... (read more)
I did (rather unprecedentedly) tweet occasionally, while writing the new book. Taken together, I think perhaps these present a decent little window into the process, or at least the mental contortions, of novel-writing.... (read more)
So - having gotten back into the thicket of my notes, and the story design I attempted to do previously, I can now officially report: I have absolutely no idea how I'm going to write this next book.... (read more)
There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. ... (read more)
