Piggybacking

I read. I write. I think and try to talk over ideas with others. Then I read a lot more and attempt to write.

This semester, I'm really working on putting words down that link all the stuff I've been reading, by folks ranging from Spillane and Meyer& Rowan to Weber and Kingdon, to my own ideas. I think it's important to read others' work, but I don't want my writing and work to just be repeating others' ideas or an endless series of quotes. At the same time, my own ideas---when thrown on paper/on screen/out loud in discussion---aren't so stable and just don't have a lot of weight unless they're piggybacked onto big frameworks.