Widening your lens
Yesterday, I spent all day studying different areas that inform media and I realized how often it is easy to suffer from tunnel vision. I’ve been sitting in the same bath water for so long, it’s gotten polluted. As a fiction writer, I always abided by the notion that all things inform your work – art begets literature begets architecture begets dance begets music begets just about everything – even the food you eat, which by the way I learned in yoga yesterday should be diverse to get all your vitamins – but as you look at an industry trying to understand the moving parts and the players and the directions – you get saddled with what everyone else knows biasing you to look a certain way – if you use a different lens, you see things, different directions, alternative realities and possibilities and suddenly what was dirty water becomes a fecund pond with lily pads and little frogs hopping around. Well, why not frogs?