{"id":28211,"date":"2022-02-11T22:35:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T06:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=28211"},"modified":"2022-02-11T22:35:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T06:35:05","slug":"pressing-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/pressing-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressing On~"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steven Pressfield is an American author of historical fiction, non-fiction, and screenplays. He has authored many fictions such as Gates of Fire, Tides of War, Last of the Amazons,<\/em> and many non-fiction such as The War of Art, Do the Work, and Turning Pro. <\/em>In his book, The War of Art<\/em>, Pressfield writes to investigate and explore the psychology of the mind in creating art. The book encourages through its motivational writing to overcome the inner barrier of creativity. The book is divided into three sections: Resistance, Combating Resistance, and Beyond Resistance, and Pressfield uses all of his creative mind, genuineness, and personal imaginations to help the readers to break through the creative blocks and overcome the inner battles of resistance. Stephen King is also an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, and crime novels. He is a legendary writer known worldwide for his works \u2013 The Dead Zone, The green mile, misery, Salem\u2019s Lot, The shining. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft <\/em>opens up with an autobiography that tracks his life memories to present his writing journey. Then, Stephen King writes to give practical tips and guides for creative writing.<\/p>\n

Pressfield\u2019s first line of the opening grabbed my attention, \u201cMost of us have two lives. The life we live and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.\u201d[1]<\/a> As I read through the two books assigned for this week, I contemplated the idea of inner resistance and overcoming the internal battles for the emerging youths these days. Pressfield\u2019s description of resistance can be used to describe the current crippling mental state of deforming and defeated young minds. \u201cResistance is the most toxic force on the planet. It is the root of more unhappiness than poverty, disease, and erectile dysfunction. To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.\u201d[2]<\/a> I am certain that both writers had to wrestle through and grit through dark tunnels of resistance of their own. At least, that was the sense I felt as I read through their works. They felt and experienced what everyone else goes through \u2013 \u201cunhappiness, feel like hell\u2026bored and restless\u2026get no satisfaction\u2026want to go back to bed\u2026feel unloved and unlovable\u2026disgusted\u2026 hate our lives\u2026hate ourselves.\u201d[3]<\/a> Yet they found a way out of their dark and endless tunnel of petrified graves of death and defeat. Walking through the valley of the shadow of death and the fiery flames of hell, you don\u2019t stop walking and get stuck there. You have to keep walking until you pass through onto the other side of light and safety. King encourages, \u201cIf you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There is no way around these two things that I\u2019m aware of, no shortcut.\u201d[4]<\/a> Practice, perseverance, and grit in creative writing will open up a channel and platform to encourage and inspire others who are caught amid struggles and resistance~<\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Steven Pressfield, The War of Art<\/em> \u2013 Break through the blocks and win your inner creative battles<\/em>, (New York: Black Irish Entertainment, 2012), 1.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Pressfield, The War of Art<\/em>, 2.<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Pressfield, The War of Art<\/em>, 31.<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> Stephen King. By Stephen King On Writing A Memoir of the Craft Twentieth Anniversary Edition, (<\/em>Generic, 2012), 145.<\/p>\n

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