Steven Pressfield's Blog, page 91

A Serving Elite

["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.]
Giora Romm was the Israel Air Force’s first
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Principles of Improv

There are very few books on creativity that I would take with me to a desert island. One for sure is Patricia Ryan Madson’s Improv Wisdom, first published in 2005.
Patricia taught improvisation at Stanford to SRO classes for twenty-eight years. Her slender, highly concentrated book (shorter than The War of Art) cites thirteen maxims for
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To the Rue Cambon

["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.]
“What is the answer for the individual who
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A Lunch on the Place de l’Odeon

["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.]
After services, Danny and I catch a cab
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Working in Chaos

This week for me is packed with interviews, getting the word out for The Lion’s Gate. Looking at my calendar I see block after block of twenty minutes, thirty minutes marked down for appointments.
How will I get any work done?
1. I’m gonna work in the cracks.
I’ll have to find intervals. There won’t be many because
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On the Rue de la Victoire

["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.]
Danny wakes me in a state of excitement.
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En Brera, Part Two

["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.]
I’m in Paris now. I have flown here
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Inner Wars and Outer Wars

One of the questions I get asked all the time is “Why do you write about war?”
It’s a good question, and for years I didn’t have an answer.
I didn’t start out writing about war. For almost thirty years I wrote screenplays and novels and none of them were war-themed. In 1996, Gates of Fire (about
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“Remember Who You Are. Remember Why You Are Here”

["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.]
I am visiting the 101 Squadron at Hatzor
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The Western Wall, Part Two

["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.]
How does the Western Wall fit into my
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