The Writing Life
A few weeks ago, The Next Web published an article about the brutal truths of the creative life. I enjoyed the article so much that I decided to approach each of the eleven truths in individual posts. The first truth: no one’s ideas are original.
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I keep returning to the subjects of creativity and integrity—this marks the third occasion of writing about them in the span of a month. The predilection seems to indicate a new obsession, which I think is fine. The two topics, particularly their interactions with each other, matter. They relate to how I view work, art, and faith.
“I’ve always been fascinated by people who can put things down on paper, and I liked to listen for new ways to say old things and old ways to say new things.” — Andy Warhol
If you don’t evolve, you die. The vultures and buzzards and all the other carrion birds will come to pick off the remains. It’s a simple rule, really, easy to learn, easy to live by. Evolve. Change. Transform. Do or die. Do, or be eaten, swallowed whole, by the adaptable ones.
Come—all of you you have skills—come and make everything that God has commanded. — Exodus 35:10, The Message
Sometimes, you have to get away from what you know. Go on an adventure. Take a trip. Leave the familiar in the rearview mirror.