Good art is therapy: you break from the exhausting effort it takes to maintain an identity and allow a massive, unseen force of symmetry to express itself through you. It’s not so much creating as allowing creation to happen.

In order to infuse all aspects of story with meaning, heighten awareness to see the infusion of meaning in all aspects of life.

Haiku on the fly!: What Would Bruce Wayne Do? Be disciplined: Slay weakness. That’s Dark Knight as F*CK!

When I first started, I was afraid the stories would slip away, and that I needed to contain/transcribe them ASAP. I was angry/irritated all the time, wanting to capture them, afraid they’d disappear. Later, I realized the stories are ALWAYS there. In some quantum niche, they actually exist (Dark Tower, anyone?) By trusting that, you…

On interweaving a universal theme into writing: All living things share the need to feed, create waste, and reproduce; a body and identity are evolved around these needs. When I write a theme, I sometimes imagine I’m an alien species, able to read translated English. Would my theme transcribe to iterations of those universal needs…

Precision trumps grit/toughness which trumps bravado which trumps complacency. Everything serves the ultimate goal of being precise. Many get hung up/stuck on the previous steps, lost in idolizations and romanticism. But any of those is better than being complacent.

Haiku on the fly!: Write another’s voice? The agile identity Is what’s required

To those who meditate/pray etc: I started (like most of you) to enhance performance/escape pain/negativity. Now? I meditate for relief from an unending deluge of ideas and possibilities; I do it for relief from a good thing! What a crazy twist of grace. The irony is that it just gives me more ideas. Pretty awesome.

I’ve always been creative; every failure/opportunity/misfortune/victory I’ve experienced has been surrounded by rationale I’ve created for myself-why something can or can’t be done. As I grew older I realized: What’s the use of creating reasons for “can’t?” If I’m creative no matter what then I’ll focus on creating reasons for “can.”

Haiku on the fly!: What is an artist but a Prism? Refracting Creation’s Magic.