Confessions of a Grandma

It is time for me to re-read the War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles  by Steven Pressfield. He is an author I would not ordinarily choose to read.  His books are about military stuff and wars.  He is an ex-marine after all.  According to his bio, he was made an honorary citizen of Sparta--for what that may say about him. But I have read the War of Art , and it is time for me to read it again.  From the introduction: There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this:  It's not the writing part that's hard.  What's hard is sitting down to write. That is really no secret.  It is not that I have not been doing things.  I have, but I still have a nagging feeling of being stuck, of spinning wheels.  Spinning wheels is an apt image.  It is my mind that is spinning, and that means that I am not fully present with what I may be doing. It affects everythin...