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

The Daily Stoic

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Writing Is a Science and an Art

Stephen Pressfield, who wrote The War of Art, talks about how you have to put your ass where your heart wants to be. Like it's an art and a science, but also Anne Patchett has written about if you want to play the cello and be a cellist, why would you think that you didn't need to practice? And it's the same with writing just because you can type doesn't mean that you can write without practice and it's really true. You'd need to put in, I mean, I don't know if it's 10,000 hours, but you need to kind of be there just to practice the form and eventually you get better and

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