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Steven Pressfield, Robert Greene, Jack Carr, Meg Mason, and Adam Hochschild on Writing

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

I've Done It, I'm Not a Writer, I Don't Know What I Should Be Doing

"It's like you can't think about what other people are going to think about this or that's sucking away like resources from actually being in the moment of what you're supposed to be doing," he says. "The other place I've gone wildly wrong is thinking that literary mens serious and then I would have to strive to keep jokes out." He adds: "I really worked hard to make sure they didn't get in, and so that was part of the reason it was awful"

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