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Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Pressfield on Procrastination

Novelist and blogger Steven Pressfield, in his marvelous book, The War of Art:

We don't tell ourselves, "I'm never going to write my symphony." Instead we say, "I am going to write my symphony; I'm just going to start tomorrow."
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2 comments:

  1. Michy11:16 AM

    Sounds about right. "Edit novel" is still on my list of things to do later this month. It may have started out on the list for another month, but...

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  2. Michael Wade8:04 PM

    Michy,

    I suspect that one is on quite a few lists. Perhaps "Edit five pages" might work. And then five more.

    Michael

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