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		<title>Ambition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thirty-something years ago, I read a book that changed my life. The book was by Norman Podhoretz and it was called Making It. I can’t really recommend it as a read for today (I tried a month ago and couldn’t get through it) and I certainly find little to admire about Mr. Podhoretz’s current politics.<br/><a href="http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2010/07/ambition/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Icons and Iconization, Part Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week’s post was great fun for me because of the generous, insightful and tremendously articulate Comments that came in. Thanks to everybody who took the time to write; I appreciate it and I’m sure everyone else does too.
When I first started Writing Wednesdays about a year ago, friends told me I would be surprised<br/><a href="http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2010/07/icons-and-iconization-part-two/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Icons and Iconization</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a subject I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. Iconization as an issue in real life&#8211;and as a form of Resistance. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far.
First, what is an icon? The dictionary says it’s “an object of worship.” An icon originally was an actual physical artifact—a splinter of the original<br/><a href="http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2010/07/icons-and-iconization/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Start Before You&#8217;re Ready</title>
		<link>http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2010/07/start-before-youre-ready/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past few weeks we’ve put up a couple of posts—“Cover the Canvas” and “Start at the End”—that seem like advice on the subject of writing. They aren’t. They’re about beating Resistance.
A number of the principles that work against Resistance are counter-intuitive. They seem to make no sense, but in fact their logic is<br/><a href="http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2010/07/start-before-youre-ready/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Loving A Writer</title>
		<link>http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2010/06/loving-a-writer-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you in love with a writer? Are you sure about this? Sure you don&#8217;t want to try someone easier on your heart, like a bull rider, a Black Ops commando or a motorcycle stuntman?
Herewith, from painful experience, a few guidelines for those who have given their hearts to servants of the literary Muse. (The<br/><a href="http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2010/06/loving-a-writer-2/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Start At The End</title>
		<link>http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2010/06/start-at-the-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Wednesdays]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we were talking about first drafts (Cover the Canvas, 6/9/10). The idea was to get Draft #1 done from beginning to end, no matter what, even if it wasn&#8217;t perfect. The reason? Because once we&#8217;ve got a first draft, we&#8217;re re-writing, not writing. Writing is too freakin&#8217; hard.
The obvious next question (or maybe<br/><a href="http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2010/06/start-at-the-end/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cover the Canvas</title>
		<link>http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2010/06/cover-the-canvas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the first draft the hardest? Is it different from a third draft, or a twelfth? Does a first draft possess unique challenges that we have to attack in a one-of-a-kind way?
Yes, yes and yes.
First drafts are killers
A first draft is different from (and more difficult than) all subsequent drafts because in a first draft<br/><a href="http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2010/06/cover-the-canvas/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Second Act Problems</title>
		<link>http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2010/06/second-act-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reading a terrific book by David Mamet called Three Uses of the Knife. It&#8217;s not a play or a novel, it&#8217;s a treatise on the subject of drama. There&#8217;s some great stuff in it, particularly in the section Mamet calls &#8220;Second Act Problems,&#8221; that we as writers, artists, entrepreneurs (and just plain human beings)<br/><a href="http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2010/06/second-act-problems/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Write What You Don&#8217;t Know</title>
		<link>http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2010/06/writing-wednesdays-6-write-what-you-dont-kow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2010/06/writing-wednesdays-6-write-what-you-dont-kow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Wednesdays]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

[Writing Wednesdays is taking a break this week. Here's a favorite from last 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 of writers. It didn’t work for me.
When<br/><a href="http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2010/06/writing-wednesdays-6-write-what-you-dont-kow/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Do It Anyway</title>
		<link>http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2010/05/do-it-anyway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 09:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an important post. I say that because this piece addresses (after procrastination, which is the #1 champ), the single greatest excuse/reason/cop-out that prevents aspiring writers, artists and entrepreneurs from taking action to pursue their dreams.
That excuse is, &#8220;First I have to _____________.&#8221;
&#8220;___________&#8221; can be anything from &#8220;finish my research&#8221; to &#8220;pay the rent&#8221;<br/><a href="http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2010/05/do-it-anyway/">More >></a>]]></description>
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