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the war of art

I have no idea if this is similar. I have The Creative Act but haven't read it yet.
But this book, and all the others in the series, like Turning Pro, are fantastic for any writer, artist, creator, forward-living human.

@mattshawsome

Sep 25, 2024

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The War of Art

Reminded of this book today. It was instumental in helping me take writing seriously. The concept of personifying all our little self-sabotaging acts as an antagonistic entity called Resistance was so useful. Ironically, I don't remember finishing the book. But I did finish my first screenplay.
Worth revisiting.

@lucius

Apr 11, 2024

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'the war of art' by stephen pressfield

The ultimate get-off-your-ass creative manual. It's SO GOOD and SO INSPIRING and I have demanded people's address at bars many times and ordered a copy for them on the spot. Plus reading about doing the work is a lot easier than doing the work (and still counts as work).

@sam_sumpta

Jan 23, 2024

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no video on pi.fyi

this is worthy of celebration: the lack of video—autoplay video, noisy inane video, panicky video, algorithmic, dumb video, rabbit hole video, any video—on pi.fyi is a good thing

@mattshawsome

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necessary endings

this is going to hurt — A LOT — but it's getting to the point where there's no other option

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realizing that at some point not so long ago you crossed an invisible line and now you're a different person, in a very good way

huh
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wow

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Mar 27, 2025

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