Steven Pressfield's Blog, page 90

Backstory Pt. 1

I promised last Wednesday that we would be presenting several new video series on the blog. Here’s the first one, starting today. (There’s a transcript below the video, in case you’d rather read than watch.)
This series is me interviewing Jeff Simon, our blog’s 28-year-old tech guru, about the new web series he is developing called
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Horse Sense: “Lay a Little Heavy on the Business Side”

Would you have said no to Elvis Presley?
Imagine Elvis calling you back in the day.
He loves a song you’ve written, wants to record it—and even invites you down to the recording session.
You’re excited and start telling your friends the news—and then (and this is a big AND THEN), a few days before the session, Colonel
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Classing Up the Joint

A few changes coming to this blog in the next couple of months:
1. Jeff Simon, our version of Steve Jobs, has been reconfiguring the site to make it more video-friendly. We’ll have a new look soon (or as soon as Jeff can whip it together.) The plan is to do a lot more video posts
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Red Tile Roofs

I’m driving back from the Golan Heights with Eli. We’re on Route 6, the toll road south, passing an Arab town in Israel and I’m asking him if he believes there is any hope for peace.

“Yes, and I will tell you why,” he says. “Look over there at that town.”
Eli calls my attention to the
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The Why of Publishing

[This is a mini-series about why and how Steve and I came to publish Solitary by Giora Romm. Thank you to the First Look Access members who jumped on the offer Steve sent them two days ago. We've opened a limited-offer of $3.99 per book here to everyone, available until June 30th at 11:59pm PST. Click
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How Black Irish Acquired its First Book

Black Irish Books is the little publishing company that Shawn and I operate, alongside our various day jobs. When I say little, I mean little. So far we’ve only brought out stuff written by me. That started to change, though, about two and a half years ago.
If you’ve been reading the Monday and Friday posts
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How to Write a War Memoir (or any memoir)

I am dangling beneath my parachute. Gazing down from a height of 10,000 feet, knowing I am going to be killed in less than fifteen minutes, I feel great sorrow for myself. None of my fellow pilots who’ve parachuted into the Nile Delta has survived the encounter with the welcoming committee below, and I have
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The Death Burst

One of the things I learned doing the interviews for The Lion’s Gate was that the best stuff often came when you least expected it.
It happened in breaks, or going to lunch, or after the formal interview was over. That was when people loosened up and became themselves. They brought out the insights and memories
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Seth Godin and My Friend Liam

About six weeks ago, Seth Godin (Tribes, Linchpin, Squidoo, The Icarus Deception, HugDug.com) ran an announcement on his blog. He invited 15 people to apply to spend a week with him this summer in a seminar for young artists and entrepreneurs. Tuition free.
My first thought when I read this was, “Wow, what a generous offer!
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MiG Killers

["The Book I've Been Avoiding Writing" (a.k.a. "Three Years of Writing and 40+ Years of Thinking About The Lion's Gate") is a mini-series about the writing of my new book, The Lion's Gate. Thanks for tuning in as it runs Mondays and Fridays over the next few weeks.]
Continuing my interview with Giora Romm, the Israel
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