As a writer (or any kind of artist), have some crazy ass beliefs.  You need them in order to party with hard-boiled detectives, cyborgs, killers, elves, cowboys…what have you.  That other stuff?  Those mundanities that keep people ensconced in drudge and toil?  For the writer, those mundanities are parts of a game that must be played.  One that needs to be honored, but in the end, just another game.  

Always and forever, the PARTY is where it’s at.