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Today is about stealing.<\/strong><\/p>\n Jeff Goings will tell you today that the 6th habit of great writers is their propensity to steal. I agree. They (we) don’t always realize they (we) do it, but at least a bit is stolen.<\/p>\n We all have hidden influencers, as much as we have recognized models we admire or even imitate.<\/p>\n The brilliant thinkers of the ancient world told of the Muses. The daughters of the gods gave mortals inspiration. Creativity was borrowed. Co-opted.\u00a0It was not a product of spontaneous generation. It neither started nor ended with a human. Genius wasn’t characteristic of a person, but of an influence.<\/p>\n There is but one true source for creation and creativity Theos …<\/em>deity.<\/em><\/p>\n In Christianity, a\u00a0monotheist Source<\/em>.<\/p>\n It’s all a heist, my friends. A beautiful heist. The more personal of twist we put on the process and delivery the less it’s identifiable as stealing.<\/p>\n Now, it’s your turn:<\/p>\n Do you agree? Theft is even more true in terms of creativity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9,5335,5626],"tags":[6534,853,859,1001,1472,5610,5773,5744,5771,3241,3414,5772,3768],"class_list":["post-9301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-authors","category-books","category-creativity","category-spark-my-muse","tag-art","tag-creating","tag-creativity","tag-divine","tag-god","tag-jeff-goins","tag-mortals","tag-muse","tag-steal","tag-stealing","tag-theft","tag-theos","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9303,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301\/revisions\/9303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Theft is even more true in terms of creativity<\/strong>, but for an entirely different reason. An important reason.<\/span><\/h4>\n
Namely, origins.<\/span><\/h4>\n
\nWho or what have been your biggest influencers?\u00a0<\/strong>
\nAnd what are some of your <\/strong>possible<\/em> hidden influencers?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"