Use Your Own Life Story To Bring Depth To Your Writing with Steven Pressfield

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Steven Pressfield is a mentor to many writers through books like The War of Art and Turning Pro.

But Steve learned his creative lessons the hard way, and he shares that story in his new book, The Knowledge. In this interview, I ask Steve how he turned real life into fiction, accessing the darker side of life, choosing book titles, and more.

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.

His latest book is The Knowledge: A Too Close to True Novel, which is the origin story of The War of Art.
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Here are the highlights:

On writing in different genres
How personal should fiction be?
Whether writing from our dark side can be cathartic
The key to choosing a book's title
Why the theme of a book matters so much and how to find it, even when it's elusive
Where Steven sees blogging fitting into his writing business
Steven's view of the current state of the publishing industry
You can find Steven at http://www.StevenPressfield.com or on Twitter @SPressfield