My favorite part of writing is when I see or hear something and I get a new idea. This moment has several names depending on your beliefs, nearly all fall into two conceptual buckets of either an idea that didn’t exist being created OR an idea that did exist but being found. I fall into the latter camp, that ideas exist and that as creators we find them, catalog them, assemble them, attach meaning to them, translate them into different forms. This belief leads me train and exercise my skills in observation and allowing my brain to chase thoughts and ideas. Whenever I receive inspiration I try to chase it as far as I can.

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