3 Paths to Effective Writing
Wisdom
is largely mental—a study of effective writing, analysis, dissection of what makes it so.
Love
is where we absorb the concepts of effective writing through devotion, by osmosis from watching and reading other accomplished writers.
Immersion
Over emphasizing either Wisdom or Love, or putting both together, leads to paralysis—writer's block. Only when you allow yourself Immersion in the idea that you can write do you become aware of your ability to do so.
Adapted from The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life by Steven Pressfield. New York: Avon, 1995. 73-74.