I've been listening to a book called On Writing, by Stephen King. At the end of one of the chapters he gives a very prescient quote "Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around". Holy shit. That's so true. Things happen, and we want to do other stuff. Our attention is pulled this way and that, constantly bombarded by the cool next thing, and what suffers is our art. For most people, art only happens when we're excited about it, when there's some underlying motivation mechan...
