Completing the first third of my residency at Anderson Center, last night's epiphany was that this time is not just for the production of work, it is also for the networking and education of what it means to live the life of an artist.
Some of the greatest things I'll take away from this month (which--I'll say it now--is changing my life)will be the things I've learned not only about how other artists and writers work, but the things I've gleaned from their research into grants and other residencies.
I have a notebook filling up of residencies, classes, workshops, grants, awards, MFA programs, and a plethera of other tools into which I will dive again and again as an person who is beginging to seriously toy with the possibility of calling himself: a writer and an artist.
I have two thirds of my life here yet to live, and I cannot wait to live it.
Write on, shine on,
Thomas.
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