On of the key things I learned in Jim Thorpe was the vital roll that subject immersing plays in coming up with a worthwhile story. It is motivating to know that by spending enough time and asking enough questions, one can yield to the Newtonian moment of realization. Note, not CREATION, but realization or RECREATION. As human beings we cannot truly create anything, only Jehovah God can originate something new, the rest of us are only recombining what has already been done with our personal flavor. Spoke said it best, "infinite possibilities in infinite combinations".
Fishing In My Stream is my effort to diagram my experience and snatch from my stream of consciousness any ideas worth remembering. If I could give a young artist one single piece of advise, it would be to draw draw draw, everything. Not to reproduce it, but to develop the hand skills and to learn to truly see what you drawing by forgetting what it is you are looking at. See its essence, not the surface.