Short, sweet, and powerful

December 12, 2007 by Lani Voivod, Chief Scribbler.

(Note: This comes from my hubby and fellow scribbler Allen Voivod, from a writer’s newsletter he wrote back in 2005 - still useful today!)

I’ve read (or tried to read) more than a few books on writing, and most of them don’t do a thing for me. Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way works for me, but only on an annual basis at best. But some of us - yes, me included - need help on a day-to-day basis, and there’s only one book that’s worked for me, and it’s one you might not have heard of.

I got Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art as a gift back in 2002 - a pre-publication version, actually, from a guy who picked up copies for everyone in our Artist’s Way group when he went to the big annual L.A. Times book fair at UCLA. The hardcover version is also the coolest looking writing book you’ll ever see. It’s mostly about identifying and combating your internal resistance to create, and that’s as much as I’ll say about it. Head to your local library and take it for a test spin.

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