First off, I would like to send good luck to all of my writer friends who are participating in this year's National Novel Writing Month. I'm not doing it this year but I'll cheer the rest of you on. 50K in 30 days. Whew. Makes me tired just thinking about it. :) So...procrastination. Yeah. For the last few weeks, I've had a valid excuse to not work so much on my novel revision because of my day job craziness. But now that's slowing down and I'm still finding other ways to avoid what needs … [Read more...]
The War of Art
January 25, 2010 Read Comments
A while ago I wrote a blog post about the book, Art of War for Writers by James Scott Bell. So it is ironic that now I'm writing a blog post about a book titled The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. I stumbled upon this book a few weeks ago, and was grateful to have it since I've been dealing a lot with what Pressfield calls Resistance: "In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term growth, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act … [Read more...]
