There’s a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don’t, and the secret is this: It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDThe amateur tweets. The pro works.
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Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
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What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.
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It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.
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Don’t prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.
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I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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The professional tackles the project that will make him stretch. He takes on the assignment that will bear him into uncharted waters, compel him to explore unconscious parts of himself. Is he scared? Hell, yes. He’s petrified.
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The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don’t believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.
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Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
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Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It’s a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got.
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The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
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We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we’re stuck with it.
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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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