# The Creative Mind

This is how I will heal what two years in L.A. have done to me.

... if we’re not doing the thing that makes us tick, are we really living to our potential and sending the right message to those that might be watching and emulating?

And there I was in the fancy office of a multi-million-dollar production house where I acted like a 10-year-old schoolboy sent to the principal’s office.

The more pressure you put on yourself, the less likely you are to write. Instead of setting huge daily/weekly goals, set goals that you can easily accomplish.

Not wanting to turn into a bitter (or incarcerated) adult, and also a seasoned aficionado of sugar, I suffered DEEPLY from bag envy.

You have to actually write a book to get better at writing books.

Stop focusing on all the things you haven't done, and start focusing on the things you have.

How do you trick yourself into believing that you can still do it? That you should keep going even if you know deep down in your soul you’re not going to “win” anymore?

We argue because our art form, screenwriting, is different from so many other types of writing. In screenwriting, form literally follows function.

Say no to life more. This is not the month to live, it’s the month to write.

Oh, how differently this "Thank you" reads from the one earlier—how bitter, how nostalgic. And truly, who can’t feel the dejection in that pitiful send-off "best of luck"?

That’s what “write what you know” really means. It means you should take a feeling, or a unique experience you’ve lived through—something that is quintessentially you—and put it on the page.

I was creating something so this skin could move through the world like a phantom. Something that would protect me as I hid beneath the surface of whatever I’ve become.

Writer’s lives are not clickbait, and they are not a work of fiction to be dramatized for effect.

Drawing didn’t heal me. Risk taking did.