The Authentic Swing: Notes from the Writing of a First Novel
Categories: Literature & Fiction
The Authentic Swing, first published in 2013, is Steven Pressfield's account of how he wrote his first published novel, The Legend of Bagger Vance, after decades of struggle and rejection. In short chapters, Pressfield explains how he found the book's theme, its narrator and its debt to the Bhagavad Gita, and he draws lessons for writers on concept, structure and trusting the Muse, extending the ideas of The War of Art.
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- Joe Rogan: “Like Steven Pressfield, brilliant author. ... and all of a sudden he writes Legend of Bagger Vance and all these great books and it becomes hugely successful and turned it around.”