My version of Steal like an Artist: Point 7

Geography is No Longer Our Master. 

This is something I know very well. The internet is the reason I have friends all around the world. I am able to maintain friendships maybe not perfectly, but I am able to connect. 

Maybe I need to start networking with other writers. Learn from other examples. I have thought of this. I am on every creative writing group on Facebook actually. Well, all the ones that appealed to me one day. However, I don't go on them. I don't care to. Because I am not good enough to share yet. But I think it could be important to get inspired by others. 

I think the things I want to get inspired by the most is poetry. I don't write 19th century poems, I don't write awful-Ashley-used-to-always-rhyme-gross poems, I tend to paint a picture with words in poetry. I like to do this because what lesson you learn from poetry might not be the lesson I intended, but the point isn't whether you learn my lesson or your own.

That's one way I think teachers really mess up "theme" in school. Who cares what the overall lesson is. Love Conquers All. Family Matters. If its a lesson you already know it isn't the lesson you learned. The theme of the book should be personal, what lesson did you walk away with. Why was it important to you. 

I always hated theme. I could never figure out the lesson the teacher wanted. I was too busy finding the lesson that could change my life for the better.

Also I need to learn to embrace my captivity. To find a way to be bored and be okay being bored. Too often do I fill in the void of time just to fill it. I used to fill it in a productive way and now its more like candy for the brain. It does nothing for me. It just satisfies the itch.