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Special Guest: Steven Pressfield - Part 1

Story Grid Writing Podcast

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Gates of Fire Is a Wonderful Story

Gates of re is not only about courage. It's about understanding that the self is best expressed in a larger community of other selves. So when a great story like ats a fire, it reaffirms a universal truth to the reader. And one or the things about men, now, this is something that steve, they had, you knowhe there's no wayhe's thinking of this when he's writing the book. He's writing the story because he wants to tell that climactic moment when those guys fought in the battle. But underneath that is the universal truth that love and being larger than something, than purely yourself, is more important than selfish acquisition of goods and services

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