“I used to fear that my ideas were drawn from a limited pool and that at any moment this pool would dry up.

This is true if you think of creativity like a pool. A pool is a still, stagnant body of water…

Instead, idea generation needs to be like a river. There is life in a river. And death. There is love and hate. Fresh input flows in and out… there is always change.

Make a new friend. Learn to chainsaw juggle. Read a book. Go hand gliding in your underpants.

If you have done all of these things and you still don’t have anything to write about… don’t write.

Comments can be a good thing; they can create a dialogue within your work. But they can also be a very, very bad thing. Remember, there is such a thing as destructive feedback, and when you read comments about your work, you open yourself up to that.

And not only can it be poisonous to the content creator, but it can spoil the experience for the reader as well.

Not all comments are bad… Art is not born in a vacuum, but it’s not born inside a tornado of shrieking trolls, either.”