Joyful Persistence: My Talk for the UBC School of Creative Writing Graduation
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Joyful Persistence: My Talk for the UBC School of Creative Writing Graduation
“Your day’s work might turn out to have been a mess. So what? Vonnegut said, ‘When I write, I feel like an armless legless man with a crayon in his mouth’. So go ahead and make big scrawls and mistakes. Use up lots of paper. Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist’s true friend. What people somehow (inadvertent
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You know when you’re in that room. You’ve probably been there before. Salto mortale, the dangerous leap, that feeling in your stomach when you’re in thin air, neither here nor there. Some people avoid this feeling. That’s why they need a recipe and want reassurance that the work they do will pay off. The practice requires you to seek out this exper
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Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.