1. Be willing to destroy the very idea that you are original. What good will it do to lay there, clutching at old bones? – Camel
2. Be courageous. Flaunt the authority of copyright oppression. How will anyone be able to tell if it’s theirs or yours once you’ve gone around in circles and dug a deep trench for yourself such that you might successfully disappear from view? – Mule and Turtle via Cat.
3. Get to the point where you eat words, drink words, bathe in words, imprison yourself with words, kill yourself with words, copulate with words. Fuck with words until you birth a story baby of your own. Call it yours, and don’t forget to reference your sources. – Chimpanzee 
4. Learn to appreciate your part in the continuum or creativity. A long time ago it was believed that we could see the idea-spirits walking in these forests. By concentrating on the empty air above the closest set of tracks you could eventually see an apparition so thin, so without substance that it could have been powder blown from a branch. The current thinking leans towards a continuum or canon. Some aspects of the postmodern lens attempt to dissolve this myth of separateness entirely. – Dog
5. Learn to connect via the invisible circuit of mad woman(man) energy. Voice your dissent, your assent and join the ongoing culture. – Mussel
6. Do not cling too long to the pier of “your” discovery. When you realise you have been clinging to that pier for too long, you must put your foot down on the river floor and begin to move away from it. There was no single act. You risk forgetting that many before you contribute to the narrative you’re a part of. If you only untie your threads and push off you would notice the flow of the river you are in. – Mussel
7. You might feel it, a tingling promise. Is it what you’ve been looking for, the gorgeous chance to be tested, to have a breakthrough? Or are you simply sitting on the shoulders of all that came before you? – Mussel
8. There’s no need to stay hungry. You’re on to something, whether you’re improvising, making it up as you go, or not. You can endure this grubby life, turn it into something sparkling through mimicry, parody and copying. – Mussel
9. Become surrounded by interesting contemporaries, painters and poets who set your soul on fire with curiosity and creativity. Support each other to remain aware that you are not part of a superior class. – Tortoise
10. Maybe you’re a creative princess trapped inside a human’s body, with gifts of speech and song and poetry so refined. Maybe you’re just a storytelling human whose audience has a propensity to forget that which came before. – Bear

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