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Writing Wednesdays #6: Write What You Don’t Know

By Steven Pressfield | Published: December 29, 2009
[While the blog is out of town over New Year's, here's a reader-favorite post to tide us all over.  Happy New Year!] Probably the most classic kernel of writing advice is “Write What You Know.” On the surface, that seems to make a lot of sense, and I’m sure it has worked for thousands and thousands [...]
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Writing Wednesdays #20: Giving It Away

By Steven Pressfield | Published: December 14, 2009
I know Giving It Away is supposed to work as a web marketing strategy, bringing in new customers. (Like when rock bands offer free downloads of their songs and the new listeners then go out and buy the group’s CDs or attend their concerts.) I’ve tried this. I must confess that so far the only [...]
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Writing Wednesdays #19: Having A Practice

By Steven Pressfield | Published: December 9, 2009
Last Wednesday I wrote a post called “Self-Doubt.” It shared a rough patch I was going through on the book I’m working on now. I put it out there because I wanted other writers and artists (who know this already but perhaps needed a little reminder, as I do) to remember that they aren’t alone [...]
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Writing Wednesdays # 13: Major Jim Gant

By Steven Pressfield | Published: October 28, 2009
Because of the response to Monday’s posting of Major Jim Gant’s paper One Tribe At A Time, I’d like to keep the post “above the fold” all week, and run a shorter “Writing Wednesdays” post this week. The focus? Resistance and Major Gant.   Major Gant has a wife and kids; he’s training now for a year-long deployment [...]
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“Writing Wednesdays” #2: The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned

By Steven Pressfield | Published: October 21, 2009
[The blog is "on the road" this week.  Here's a re-run of readers' #1 favorite Writing Wednesdays piece.  See you next Wednesday!] My first real job was in advertising. I worked as a copywriter for an agency called Benton & Bowles in New York City. An artist or entrepreneur’s first job inevitably bends the twig. It [...]
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