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Combat Resistance and get writing!

When you're not getting your pages written and beginning to worry that there's something psychologically wrong with you ? or you're not getting your pages written for perfectly "rational" reasons ??pick up Steven Pressfield's book The War of Art. It is the kick in the pants you need. Pressfield shows how to identify and defeat Resistance, the invisible repelling force that radiates from any work-in-potential. Writing is at the top of Resistance's hit list, but there are many other endeavors.

"Any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term growth ... any act that derives from our higher nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance."

He goes on to define the characteristics of Resistance and how to combat this enemy by "turning pro". Read it and you'll get to work.

Posted by Julie on January 26, 2006
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