Steven Pressfield

What It Takes via Shawn Coyne: Always be Closing http://ow.ly/lDNW300EsOU  Don’t forget the back cover copy.

Writing Wednesdays: Cover the Canvas http://ow.ly/9Z13300zCi2  Put paint in every square inch and lay the groundwork for subsequent drafts.

What It Takes by @CallieOettinger: Don’t Swing Big All the Time http://ow.ly/pLdE300q9gp  The goal should be to get on base.

What It Takes by Shawn Coyne: One Fail-Safe Rule for Packaging http://ow.ly/o6jC300c8RI  Cover image says something antithetical to the title.

What It Takes by @CallieOettinger: The Social Media Skinny http://ow.ly/4nuIRJ  Create value and conversations, build trust, reclaim time

Writing Wednesdays: “Help! I Can’t Find My Title!” http://ow.ly/4nrlVm  Theme is a golden highway to a great title.

What It Takes via Shawn Coyne: Designated Driver http://ow.ly/4nfeqT  THEME is another word for…That place we all really want to go…Home.

Writing Wednesdays “I Can’t Squeeze My Theme In!” http://ow.ly/4n9NNQ  The message is our story’s theme.It’s embedded in the work already

What It Takes via @CallieOettinger Your Pitch: Go Legal, Go Short, Go Reality http://ow.ly/4mYOjs  To master your industry, leave it.

Writing Wednesdays: My Resistance Dream Diary #2 http://ow.ly/4mUprS  Dreams like these are God’s currency, solid gold, legal tender...

What It Takes via Shawn Coyne: The Vision Thing http://ow.ly/4mJeCr  Happy with the title for your novel?How to translate to cover image?

Writing Wednesdays: My Resistance Dream Diary http://ow.ly/10DxAC  I’m just starting a new fiction project that’s overwhelming me ...

What It Takes via @CallieOettinger The Why of Pitching — and the Five Constants http://ow.ly/10s5N0  Doing the work isn’t enough.

Writing Wednesdays: How to Make Your Novel Universal http://ow.ly/10mN5h  My answer will not surprise you. Theme.

What It Takes via Shawn Coyne: Genre First, Target Market Second http://ow.ly/10bIGq  What about nonfiction? How do you approach that?

Thanks @viking2917 for including GATES OF FIRE in your article — and to @thebookseller for sharing it. —SP Team http://ow.ly/105xfT 

Writing Wednesdays: Analyze Your Novel Like a Dream http://ow.ly/105ni7  The exercise will lead you back to theme- & empowering the story

What It Takes via @CallieOettinger: How to Pitch, Part II http://ow.ly/ZVynj 

Writing Wednesdays: The Hero Embodies the Theme http://ow.ly/ZR0vr  Theme. It’s the key to everything.

Writing Wednesdays: Is Theme Important in Nonfiction too? http://ow.ly/ZyMfP  Critical in this instance artistically and financially.

What It Takes via @CallieOettinger: How to Pitch http://ow.ly/ZljVa  What you need to know before you get started.

Writing Wednesdays: “Help! I Can’t Find My Theme!” http://ow.ly/ZfT2b  How can a writer compose 500-800 pgs & not know what it’s about?

What It Takes via Shawn Coyne: Critical Questions http://ow.ly/Z5ixT  Package with as much specificity as you write.

Writing Wednesdays: The Truth is Out There http://ow.ly/YIvva  The deeper the theme the more it will get its hooks into the audience

What It Takes by Shawn Coyne: Literary and Commercial http://ow.ly/Yw67X  Know which one your world falls under.

Writing Wednesdays: Chayefsky’s Rule http://ow.ly/Yr3ec  Dino flick or classic American short story, every element must be on-theme.

What It Takes by @CallieOettinger: Girl Scouts, Pot & Thinking Outside the Obvious http://ow.ly/Yg8xy  Selling a unit a minute in 2 hrs.

Writing Wednesdays: The Difference Between Subject and Theme http://ow.ly/YaS5n  Subject+theme=story’s power/emotional wallop magnified

What It Takes via Shawn Coyne: Releasing Your Voice/s http://ow.ly/XZTSd  How to get the hell out of the way & let those bluebirds sing

Writing Wednesdays: What is Your Novel About? http://ow.ly/XTCx1  How can 500 writers bang out scripts that are about nothing?

What It Takes via Callie Oettinger: Finding Atticus http://ow.ly/XGaFd  A doer, not just a talker.

Thanks @MindiZone for reviewing, and for your kind words about, TURNING PRO. —SP Team

Writing Wednesdays: Choreographing a Fight Scene http://ow.ly/XBfuS  If you start a narrative thread it has to be paid off later.

What It Takes by @CallieOettinger: Bradbury and Bowie — Dancing, So As Not To Be Dead http://ow.ly/X6Tt2  They were ALIVE.

Writing Wednesdays: Make Your Hero Suffer, Part Three http://ow.ly/X1s1Z  Why, we might ask, does the hero have to suffer at all?

What It Takes via @CallieOettinger : Connectin' Like Hendley http://ow.ly/WNyYD  They were scroungers with connections.

Writing Wednesdays: Make Your Hero Suffer, Part II http://ow.ly/WHKXI  The bigger and more powerful the theme, the greater the suffering

Thanks @NEVERsate for sharing THE WAR OF ART and to @CCTNews for sharing with its readers. —SP Team

Writing Wednesdays: “Think of This Movie as a Sausage” http://ow.ly/Wh64X  This movie is just a sausage and we are just grinding it out.

Thanks Skip Raschke for recommending THE LION'S GATE and to @TheStreet for sharing with its readers. —SP Team http://ow.ly/Wb2kH