Steven Pressfield’s new book, Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life’s Work, covers familiar ground, building upon the information he first presented in his 2002 book: The War of Art (click here for the Muse Review). This book’s format is similar to that of War: short 1 to 2 page chapters, lots of white […]
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Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey (Editor) This book is a hard one to review because of what it is. This is a meticulously researched work on the work habits of writers, composers, artists and other creative types. He pulls this information from existing sources, biographies, autobiographies and personal journals. If you are
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Tracking productivity for writing projects is difficult. Writing, the act of putting words on paper, is only part of the process. There is editing, re-writing, researching and marketing (to sell your work) and marketing again (to promote your work after it has been published). So how do I know if I had a good writing
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Chuck Wendig has a theme that resonates through his blog and work, and has a popular writer’s prayer that he shares on his website: www.terribleminds.com Here are the final lines of it: I am the Commander of these words. I am the King of this story. I am the God of this place. I am
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I was on vacation 2 weeks ago. We tried something new, we went toCity, Michigan where we purchased a package which included a lighthouse tour, a trip to two historic sites, one in Mackinac City, Colonial Michilimackinac (try saying that 5 times fast, or even once for that matter) which represented the fort during its
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The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. — Chinese Proverb Every project you take on never feels like it will ever get done. You hate the opening paragraph. You can’t see the end of the story. You can’t find that article that you photocopied to use as a source. There
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Do you think, if you say the word “impossible” enough times, that difficult things will suddenly become easier for you? — Richard Bach When we write, we understand the reality of the word impossible. Writers stare at it every day and deal with the kind of rejection that would make a telemarketer swallow entire bottles of
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C-3P0: Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1. Han Solo: Never tell me the odds. The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Some writers write because they want to become rich and famous. They see writing as their winning lotto ticket, their professional football career, their one-hit-wonder, their American-Idol superstardom.
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