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#058: Steven Pressfield — The War of Art, Battling Resistance, Having A Creative Calling, Writing Memoir

London Writers' Salon

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The Power of Surrender

I like the surrender that you talk about. That's why I've been thinking a lot about surrender in reading your books because you talk about some essentially letting them, letting the creativity flow through you. How does the muse speak to you to say, okay, this is what's next? It's come in different ways to me. One way that it sort of comes is either I'll have an idea or somebody will suggest something to me and I'll immediately reject it. You know, like a friend once said, you know, you should write a book about Alexander the Great. And then three months later, I'll find it again. Another, maybe I'm getting into too much detail

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