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Forget the Writer
“‘There is no such thing as THE WRITER.’ … The battle is this: the dethroning of the writer, the constant and all-consuming bloody coup every story or poem or essay—every genuine work of art—must accomplish over its author in order truly to live and to breathe and to have something to say to us that will matter.” — Brett Lott, Letters and Life, quoting Flannery O’Connor
Steal from Everyone and Everything
The secret to my seemingly never-ending fount of ideas? Stealing. Oh, I’m no plagiarist, but I do steal. I see a call to action on someone’s website and think, “That’s a great way of doing it. How can I apply the concept to my site or a client’s?”