do the thing

To have a story, characters have to be placed into situations where they have to make choices, and those choices have to have consequences for both the character and the story. In other words: things have to happen.

There are a lot of things I want to do. I want to create and build and make and write.

And then, of course, there are other things that I just have to do, like bookkeeping and responding to emails.

Sometimes, it all gets to be too much. There are too many things to do! I need to figure out where to start! I get paralyzed by the sheer enormity of it a... See more

but what if my investment is an experiment, a question to which I don’t yet want the answer? What if I trust that ideas come on their own time?

The more you release, the easier it becomes.

The more you release, the closer to your truth you get.

The more you release, the more you see who you really are.

The more you let your guts out, the more you shine a light for others to do the same.

Not caring what other people think and not linking my creativity to my being liked — these are non-negotiables.

When we’re focused on avoiding difficult thoughts and feelings, we’re not focused on moving toward what we care about.

choices are like a mini-death, where we lose a possibility of what our lives and work might become.