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

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

You Be Mother

People seem to think I'm a novelist here. Exactly. I can't sort of deny that I am. Ironically though, having written a novel before and thinking, oh, I'll be able to do that again, I did take a little year long tangent in terms of writing something that was really horrible. And one of the battles with that manuscript that never got published, thank goodness, I didn't want to pursue that line by the time I got to the end of it. It wasn't until I decided to just write how I talk is the closest way of describing it. It kind of unlocked something and I was able to start again with that canopy scene.

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