How I Write Clips(@PerellClips):"If you have discipline and no talent, you're way better off than if you have giant talent and no discipline." Steven Pressfield thinks that you can't get through a 400-hour first draft without discipline: "If you're gonna write something that's gonna take two and a half or three years every day full time, you know?" "A first draft is four hundred hours, which when I heard that I thought that's about right." "That's ten forty hour weeks, and nobody can work a forty hour week as a writer. You know, you can't do that. So it's more like twenty hour weeks for a first draft when you're gonna do 10 drafts or something like that." "How are you gonna do that without discipline? It's everything."

2026.10.26 16:00

"If you have discipline and no talent, you're way better off than if you have giant talent and no discipline." Steven Pressfield thinks that you can't get through a 400-hour first draft without discipline: "If you're gonna write something that's gonna take two and a half or three years every day full time, you know?" "A first draft is four hundred hours, which when I heard that I thought that's about right." "That's ten forty hour weeks, and nobody can work a forty hour week as a writer. You know, you can't do that. So it's more like twenty hour weeks for a first draft when you're gonna do 10 drafts or something like that." "How are you gonna do that without discipline? It's everything."