Steven Pressfield on Writing

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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?

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Good observations. We usually see the success of sucessful people, we conveniently ignore the toil.