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 become open to them and they in turn trust you: To honor them and bring them to life.

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 for identity and survival? I do this to look beyond flourishes and aesthetics, to strip my story down to its starkest, most relevant core.

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.

Haiku on the fly!:
Strive to make your mind
Prismatic and crystalline
To dispel the Gray

Some people are in love with the idea of that single, great shot or cut. I think our lives are too short; I prefer to churn forward with abandon, falling, daring greatly, refining myself until, without hesitation or thought, they’re ALL great.

Rapid expansion in perspective:
1. Contemplate everything ugly in your role models
2. Contemplate everything beautiful in what you hate
3. Resist becoming jaded/glorifying at all costs