credo

there's a line from a movie i saw once, or more accurately, a conversation from the movie that sticks in my head--  they are talking about addiction.  they are in rehab and asking each other what is their primary.  one character doesn't know and they are all like:  what do you go back to if things are really bad.

well, i have an extrapolated version about art.

i ask myself:  are you a writer or a visual artist.  and i answer myself this way:

when i paint something, and it's good, it has a precious quality because i'm never sure if i could so something that good again.

 when i write something, and it gets lost. i'm like, oh well, whatever i write next will be better anyway.

i say, that makes me a writer.