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The Artist’s Way talks about “touchstones.” These are images or objects that kind of draw out our good feelings about creativity, kind of create a comfortable surrounding for it to let itself go, help encourage creative thought and play. I love collections of images as displayed in this magazine article on the drag racing history of ’55-’57 Chevrolets, then there’s some art that my friend and I have done, and a couple of books that I really enjoy. It’s nice to notice these sorts of things when I’m in the middle of this hectic month of novel writing. These things spark the mind, give it energy, and just kind of make a person (well, this person) go, “Man, that’s so cool. I want to make something!” and then you go off and do just that.