1) I would not only buy it, I would pre-order it.
2) Further insight would be helpful, but more guidance on winning the fight against Resistance would be even better. (Is waiting for such guidance actually resistance? I guess so.)
3) I would love to see it include “case studies” of how people in different fields fought their battle against Resistance, and won.
Un-numbered 4th question) It would be like it from a writing style standpoint, but unlike it in how the content focused on tactics.
5) I don’t need a hardcover version. E-book is acceptable. I plan to buy an iPad and would love to see it take advantage of that platform.

I don’t think he’s under 30, but I’m sure Mr. Godin might have a tip or two on marketing.

I hope you’re already working on this.

Many thanks.

I’ve known about it for a while, but it was my exposure to Seth Godin’s Linchpin, and hearing him talk about a force which is making my career difficult instead of joyous, that pushed me to buy & read it immediately.

I will definitely buy & read v2. And here’s what I’d love to hear more about:
1. Yes I’d buy it
2. The resistance and how to completely abolish it from my life would be most helpful to me. Also, details on how to manage and stay focused on your work when you lizard brain (as Seth Godin puts it) goes into freak out mode. How do you work after having a fight with your wife, losing a major contract, etc…
3. The ideal 3 sections of another book for me would be; a) further insights resistance identification, b) pushing through it, & c) getting back to flow when the lizard brain is going crazy.
4. The original War of Art was very concise & pragmatic … which was great. It did leave me wanting, but it was small enough to eat on an airplane & had a strategy I could use immediately.
5. Regarding hard cover; my first inclination is to say I wouldn’t pay extra for the hard cover, it’s not exactly the type of classic I’d pass down to my kids … but after saying that …. maybe it is.
6. I think having case studies would be awesome, but in a separate section, maybe an appendix (even it the appendix is 2/3’s of the book). I wouldn’t want to see one of these 300 page books where they have a simple concept, explain it in a paragraph, then have 30 pages of stories as examples.

Also, I kind of felt that Seth Godin’s Linchpin stood on the shoulders of War of Art, and added to it. I’d love to see Linchpin influence WOA2 … or even if you and Seth did a book together.

Thanks again.

I really need this book.

2. I think we can all do with another kick in the butt. I find that the “How to . . .” style works best for me.

3. Call it “The War of Art: Voices from the Front” or something like that. I thoroughly enjoyed reading The War of Art, but I found myself wondering how other authors, artists, and entrepreneurs approach the same problem. I’d love to see you ask five authors the same questions and share their varied responses. Each of us are built differently and maybe a slightly different take on the same problem would be helpful.

I attended a photography workshop with David Beckstead – a phenomenal speaker and professional photographer – and he spent almost two hours sharing the same types of ideas and concerns in the photography business. It astounded me to hear the similarities, but when I asked he was unfamiliar with your work. How many of us are working through those same life vs. art vs. Resistance questions? Maybe in a multitude of voices we’ll find even better answers.

5. I love a good hardcover, but I’d also enjoy seeing it on an iPad. You could link to video interviews, websites of the folks you talked to, discussion forums and so on. Plus, it’d be a great excuse to buy an iPad.

Thanks for all your work and advice on the blog.

May the Muse richly bless your efforts . . .

- Ken

I love its format – short bites that I can dip into in difficult moments.

I think a hardback that comes with key for the PDF (ooh now there’s a marketing gimmick – installed on a customised, funky artists/writers USB stick) – so I can have both formats. A smallish, chunky hardback, not too huge. Have a designer create a suite of graphics – wallpaper, phone wallpaper, Firefox theme and screensaver that the reader can add favorite quotes from the book to.

Do you really need a marketing strategy? If it’s as good as The War of Art, we’ll buy it. Get some copies into the hands of key bloggers, I guess. Leo Babuta, Jonathan Fields. And me !

Loved The War of Art. It has lived next to my bed for a year or so now. I always go back to it.

A sequel would be amazing. I, like others, would also pre-purchase it. In a heartbeat. I’d prefer a paperback. E-books are great too but there’s nothing like a physical volume to hold in one’s hand and refer back to whenever necessary. Letter-sized print outs aren’t quite the same. Although the videos are a great idea.

I’d like to see you cover something I have battled for years and still haven’t reconciled myself to…

It’s the whole money vs art thing. How does a creative mind fulfill creative needs while still making money which one needs to survive? I have been making money as a graphic designer for 10 years now, but I don’t do the same visual art for art’s sake that I did before I turned to design. I was more creative in my spare time when I was a civil servant by day, than I am now as a designer in my day job. Make sense? The joy of art for art’s sake evaporated once I got ensconced in graphic design. Is the lesson here “don’t quit your day job”?

There’s also the whole art vs. design debate. You could extrapolate this to be pertinent to a lot of different vocations, I’m sure. I know you said in The War of Art that art that doesn’t come from the heart is prostitution. Well, how on earth can a person toil relentlessly on the heart-art without finding himself in the poor house?

I’d love it if you could cover this in your new book.

2) How would it be helpful? Mostly for motivation and a kick in the butt.

3a) I have no expectations of what it should be.
3b) I have no preference on sections.
3c) “If the book could deliver a specific feeling as you closed the final page, what would that feeling be?” Read the last page of WOA — that’s the feeling I want from every book I read.

4) Like WOA or different? I don’t care. If you make a book that is as awesome as WOA, I will buy.

5a) Hardcover? Doesn’t matter. I like hardcover but have the paperback for WOA and its size & readability are great.
5b) If you are planning to make WOA2 as AWESOME as WOA, please make a real book. I download/print eBooks all the time, so the “pain in butt” part isn’t an issue. I put great eBooks into a 3-ring binder and then I make a cover of some sort. Can you live with the cover I make for the 3-ring binder containing WOA2? I do think that having an ebook option is valuable though. Example: The last page of WOA is awesome and I want one copy to post and one to carry with me. I have two choices – visit the copy machine or start typing. With an ebook, I’d would just print the page.

p.s. Thank you for “the WAR of ART” Steven. I GREATLY enjoyed it.

To SP: I won’t recommend what should be in the book or even if you should write it. Never mind my selfish need for your insight. But if you go back to your original premise, that you do what you love, then love it. It might just be a form of therapy that gets you out of this funk. Write it and the rest will follow. But who are we to give you advice? Let’s compare how many times resistance kicked our Asses. Yes, that’s what we will do. Fuel for the Gods of resistance. All hail!

The Art of War didn’t stop wars. It helped us fight them. The War of Art didn’t end resistance but it helped us score against it a few times. I think there were a few more books written about war after Sun Tzu, Why not another from SP?

I found two conflicting ideas.

1. In one of your interviews you talk about wanting to “deglamourize” the writing/creative process, that it’s just about busting your ass and doing the grunt work. Yet, I find the muse, God, mystic part of the book to portray the exact opposite. Almost preachy.

2. You can almost feel the book instructing you to fight this evil force, to rebel against it and resist it. Yet that evil force is called “resistance”. I just found it a bit confusing, specially at the beginning of the book. Maybe is just those darn French freedom fighters.

Thank you.