From Courtroom Battles to Captivating Stories: Vincent Scarsella’s Unexpected Journey Revealed
Vincent Scarsella
It’s changed, obviously, back when I first started writing, you know, I had like every young writer bouts of writer’s block. And then I read a guy by the name of Steven Pressfield who wrote something called the War of Art. It’s a kind of a, you know, the Art of War in the Sun Zoo. And his thing was, just do it, just write. If it’s not working, just keep doing it because the real writing process is in revision. And that became sort of my mantra and something to live by.
So, after that, after I read him, I was probably in the 80s sometime, I just write, I just, you know, at one time I was just writing in journals. And now it’s like I do it on a computer. And so, the process evolved is what I’m saying. And right now it’s, I get up early, I get up sometimes in the middle of the night at two in the morning and I write for a couple hours and go back to bed. A lot of times I’m up by six and I’m trying to get three to four hours of writing a day in at various points in the day. Of course, I’m fortunate that I’m retired. And my only job is to write at this point and to listen to my wife, which tells me to do things. So that’s my process now. I demand out of myself that I write for three to four hours. And whether it’s good or bad, and a lot of times it’s bad, but then you go back and revise it. And I have two things that I try to do. I always want to have a really good beginning. And I always before I start a project or work on a project, I want to know where it’s going to end. Now it doesn’t always end up that way, but it gives you sort of a map that you can follow from the beginning to end and everything else that fills in between to get from point A to point Z. And that’s my process basically.
