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Steven Pressfield on Writing Historical Fiction

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Do You Know What a Story Is?

When i a came out to hollywood to try to write for the movies, after a little while, my agent teamed me up with an older, established writer. And and the reason why the three novels i'm telling yu about were not good enough was because i really didn't know what a story was. I want to go back to a man at arms for a bit. Ah, you know, i'm really struck by the choice of first corinthians as the mcguffin. Why was this a threat to rome? Ah, that's a great question. And of course, i'm not really sure. By the way, you guys are asking great questions.

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