Warrior Of The Blank Page. Writing, Marketing And Mindset With Steven Pressfield
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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How can you write through self-doubt? How can you break through Resistance to write and market your work? How do you decide which book to write next? Steven Pressfield talks about being a warrior of the blank page, how he deals with Resistance around writing and marketing, as well as self-doubt and other aspects of […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur, |
| 0:09.0 | bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing, publishing options and marketing ideas for your book. |
| 0:17.0 | You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more information at |
| 0:23.0 | TheCreativepen.com. And that's Penn with a double N. And here's the show. |
| 0:30.5 | Hello creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 537 of the podcast. And it is Sunday the 7th of March, 2021, as I record this. |
| 0:42.8 | So in today's show, I'm talking to the lovely Stephen Pressfield about being a warrior of the |
| 0:48.6 | blank page. And we talk about all kinds of things, actually. And Steve has some always insightful things to say about |
| 0:56.5 | the creative process about writing through self-doubt about breaking through resistance to |
| 1:02.3 | write and market your work and in fact Steve has some very interesting things to say about |
| 1:07.7 | book marketing and how much effort he's making this time around and why it's so |
| 1:12.7 | important and if you go to his site stephenpressfield dot com you'll find lots of pre-order bonuses for |
| 1:19.6 | a man at arms which is his latest book and great examples of marketing from all kinds of different |
| 1:26.4 | angles it's always good to watch a big launch |
| 1:29.2 | from an author, especially an author of the level that Steve is and how well respected he is in the |
| 1:35.2 | industry. He also has a whole series, a video series on the warrior archetype. So really interesting |
| 1:41.4 | chat that we have today, lots about craft and about marketing and about |
| 1:47.0 | mindset as well. So as I do love talking to Steve. So that is coming up. |
| 1:53.5 | In publishing news this week, well, a few voice tech related things. Haven't really been talking |
| 1:59.4 | too much about this recently. But |
| 2:00.8 | publishing perspectives has an article from Richard Charkin here in the UK who runs Mench Publishing, |
| 2:07.3 | which is a small press. And what's interesting is Richard Charkin is someone who's been in publishing |
| 2:11.7 | a long time. He unofficially retired and then started another publishing house. He just couldn't |
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