I’ve not read any of Pressfield’s works yet, but this caught my eye from his website:
I wrote for 17 years before I earned my first penny (a $3500 option on a screenplay that was never produced).
I wrote for 27 years before I got my first novel published (The Legend of Bagger Vance).
During that time I worked 21 different jobs in eleven states.
I taught school, I drove tractor-trailers, I worked in advertising and as a screenwriter in Hollywood, I worked on offshore oil rigs, I picked fruit as a migrant worker …
It looks like he has a series of books on writing …
- The War of Art
- Turning Pro
- Do the Work
- …
Have you read these? Do you recommend them?