When you take the fact that you're loved for granted, it frees your mind to go after every other thing there is.
My ideal is to write most of the day, then go running, find friends and socialise all evening; my mind recharges with human contact.
Your mind burns a lot of calories. Writing can feel like a physical workout.
I don't think you can be taught how to make art. You can be coached, but on a fundamental level you have to figure it out for yourself. You have to learn how your own mind works, figure out your own relationship to the art; you essentially have to invent it completely for yourself.