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Writing Wednesdays: My Overnight Success There’s a story about the Oscar-winning actor Walter Matthau. A younger thespian is bemoaning his own struggle in show biz. “Mr. Matthau, I’m just looking for that one big break!” In the story Matthau laughs. “Kid,” he says. “It’s not the one big break. It’s the fifty big breaks.” Here’s what I wrote a few weeks ago, in the first post in this series about the writing of The Legend of Bagger Vance. I attempted to write my first novel when I was twenty-four. Bagger Vance [my first published book] came out when I was fifty-one. Twenty-seven years is a long time to labor without success. Can you imagine how many times I was taken aside by spouse, lovers, family, and friends and given “the talk?” Can you imagine how many times I gave it to myself? stevenpressfield/2014/12/my-overnight-success/?mc_cid=3110a79a80&mc_eid=fc94972b12
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 14:39:58 +0000

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