Brilliant Inspiration

I found this throught Tim Gruber's wonderful blog.  Unfortunately, the link to the original post doesn't work, but I found another copy of it on Frank Chimero's blog.  (Frank includes really cleaver illustrations along with the text.)


It is a list of 10 principles that can either make your work better or worse.  I'm not sure how they could make it worse.  These principles are powerful and I found them very appropriate to my return to film.  Here are a couple of my favorites, but follow the links to read them all.  Then do them all.


8. Being too comfortable is dangerous. Most creatures die in their sleep. Keep moving, or get eaten. The only things you should be absolutely comfortable with in your creative process are your tools.


9. There is nothing keeping you from doing the sort of work that you wish.What do you want? It’s a hard, yet crucial question. We all do creative work to get happy. It’s why we let it beat us up, and it’s why we keep crawling back to it. Figure out precisely what you want, and realize that if no one will pay you to make it, you can still make it for yourself. And you still win, because you’re happy.