One major thing I've learned from a year of writing every day: writing is a mirror. What I mean by this, is your writing reveals a lot about you. Not to your readers, necessarily, though obviously you can open yourself up to your readers through your writing. Rather, writing reveals ...

There's a lot of tension in the writing world between "plotting" and "pantsing," aka " architects and gardeners ." I've found a technique that I think falls somewhere in the happy middle. I call it multi-pass writing, and I'll show you how it works. My favorite novel is Old Man's ...

My friend Paul and I have been working on a project called BetaBooks . It's an app to help writers connect with beta readers. The idea is pretty simple: post your writing, get feedback, repeat. I thought I might use this blog more for personal stuff than for work stuff, ...

When you sit down to do something creative, one of two things is likely to happen: a) You have the Mojo b) You don't You know what the Mojo is, and you know when you have it. This is when you're writing the penultimate chapter of your book, the one ...

Styled in the post title as it is on the book cover. Nobody wants to read your sh*t is a new book from Steven Pressfield, author of the War of Art . The book is a fast-paced pseudo-biography chronicling Pressfield's life as he progressed from advertising copy writer to novelist, ...