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		<title>Paul&#8217;s All Is Lost Moment</title>
		<link>http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2012/02/pauls-all-is-lost-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Paul is writing a pilot. He’s never done a piece of writing this serious before. The work is totally on spec.
Paul has a full-time business and has to do his writing at odd hours. A couple of weeks ago he had a crisis that made him almost suicidal. When I describe it to<br/><a href="http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2012/02/pauls-all-is-lost-moment/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Saying No</title>
		<link>http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2012/02/saying-no/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask me what I envy most about people who have lots of money. My answer: &#8220;I&#8217;m jealous that they have secretaries to say no for them.&#8221;
Saying no is hard for me. Always has been. It&#8217;s hard for a lot of people. Maybe we want to be thought of as nice guys. Maybe we remember people<br/><a href="http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2012/02/saying-no/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What I Learned in the Ad Biz, Part Three</title>
		<link>http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2012/01/what-i-learned-in-the-ad-biz-part-three/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a concept from the world of Mad Men that has served me (and saved me) many times over the years:
The idea of “new business.”
When I worked in the ad biz in New York many moons ago, we had to account for our hours every week on a time sheet. The creative department was divided<br/><a href="http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2012/01/what-i-learned-in-the-ad-biz-part-three/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What I Learned in the Ad Biz, Part Two</title>
		<link>http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2012/01/what-i-learned-in-the-ad-biz-part-two/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2012/01/what-i-learned-in-the-ad-biz-part-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advertising is a much-reviled industry (selling us junk we don&#8217;t need, etc.) Let me not be last in line to heap my own scorn and derision upon this hell-spawned profession.
That being said, my own time as a copywriter (I worked for Grey, Benton &#38; Bowles and Ted Bates in NYC) was more valuable than a<br/><a href="http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2012/01/what-i-learned-in-the-ad-biz-part-two/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Beware the Saboteur!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2012/01/beware-the-saboteur/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Kate tells this story:
I was visiting my friend Bob Gilbert, who among many other talents was a fabulous boat builder. This was at Harvey Swindall&#8217;s boatyard in Ventura [California], where Bob was building a 92-foot yacht based on the plans for the famous ocean racer Bloodhound, which had been built originally in the<br/><a href="http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2012/01/beware-the-saboteur/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Work Over Your Head</title>
		<link>http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2012/01/work-over-your-head/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Wednesdays]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Writers of fiction learn early that they can write characters who are smarter than they are.
How can that be? It doesn&#8217;t seem possible.
The answer lies in the Mystery.
The place that we write from (or paint from or compose from or innovate from) is far deeper than our petty personal ego. That place is beyond intellect.<br/><a href="http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2012/01/work-over-your-head/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Take What the Defense Will Give You</title>
		<link>http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2011/12/take-what-the-defense-will-give-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody loves the vertical game. We all thrill to the deep ball, the long completion, the 55-yard bomb that breaks the game open. (Yes, I’ve been watching a lot of football over the Holidays.)
The problem is that, a lot of the time, the guys we’re playing against are as good or better than we are.<br/><a href="http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2011/12/take-what-the-defense-will-give-you/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Professional and the Primitive</title>
		<link>http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2011/12/the-professional-and-the-primitive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2011/12/the-professional-and-the-primitive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago when I was in Africa, I got a chance to visit a Masai village. The place was so far out in the boonies that we had to fly to it. There were no roads. We had two city Masai with us, a young man and a young woman, who did<br/><a href="http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2011/12/the-professional-and-the-primitive/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Playing Hurt</title>
		<link>http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2011/12/playing-hurt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2011/12/playing-hurt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past two and a half years have been really rough for me. Issues of love and work, health and mortality have pushed me into places I&#8217;ve never been before. Yet through all this balagan (chaos, in Hebrew), I&#8217;ve produced some of the best work of my life.
I think there&#8217;s a connection.
It&#8217;s a myth, in<br/><a href="http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2011/12/playing-hurt/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Villain Speech</title>
		<link>http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2011/12/the-villain-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shakespeare, Milton and Dante all understood villains. They loved villains. Their villains are their greatest creations.
Directors savor villains because villains light up the screen. Actors love to play bad guys. What could be more memorable onscreen than crushing a half-grapefruit into your wife&#8217;s face, as James Cagney did to Mae Clarke in Public Enemy, or,<br/><a href="http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2011/12/the-villain-speech/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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