What Steven Pressfield thinks about motivation

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American novelist and non-fiction writer, author of Gates of Fire, The Legend of Bagger Vance and The War of Art. He has written a weekly Writing Wednesdays post about the working life of a writer for more than fifteen years.

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   Our readingMaking art is a job you turn up to whether or not you feel inspired, and the work only arrives for people who are already at the desk.

   Their wordsIt doesn’t matter what creative field you’re in. Keep showing up day after day, and the game of numbers will work in your favor.

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