The Artist's Way

 The War of Art

Steven Pressfield on his daily ritual of writing

I get up; 

take a shower;

Have breakfast;

I have a lucky cannon that I point at my chair;

So that it can fire inspiration in me;

I say my prayer;

And then I plunge in ;

And then for the next 4 hours - I keep typing;

And then when I start making typos 

I know i am getting tired- that's four hours or so

How many pages have I produced?

Are they any good?

I dont care. 

All I care is that I overcame my resistance for one more day!

The secret is that - it's not the writing that is hard

- sitting down to write- that  is hard!!!