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The Lion’s Gate, Fighting Resistance And Mental Toughness For Writers With Steven Pressfield
OLD POST ALERT! This is an older post and although you might find some useful tips, any technical or publishing information is likely to be out of date. Please click on Start Here on the menu bar above to find links to my most useful articles, videos and podcast. Thanks and happy writing! – Joanna PennI'm super excited to bring you this interview with Steven Pressfield, who has been one of my ‘virtual' mentors for many years through his books and his blog. I'm definitely a fan girl! We talk about Israel and his latest book on the Six Day War, The Lion's Gate – and we also go into the Resistance and some of his tips for writers around habits and mindset.
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Steven Pressfield is the author of screenplays including The Legend of Bagger Vance, novels around the classical wars of ancient Greece and modern warfare like Gates of Fire, and non-fiction works including The War of Art and Turning Pro, which I know are on the desks of many writers listening. His latest book is ‘The Lion's Gate,' a hybrid history of the Six Day War.
I've split the interview into two on video: you can watch our discussion about The Lions' Gate here, and another on tips for writers here. You can also listen to the audio above or on the podcast feed on iTunes or Stitcher, or read the transcription below. In the interview, we discuss:
* A brief overview of the Six Day War and the events that feature in ‘The Lion's Gate' as well as why Steven wanted to tell this story, after many years of writing books around classical wars
* The concept of ‘en brera.‘ Why the Israelis had ‘no alternative' at that time and perhaps, still don't?