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humanodon  ·  2663 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Today's Writing Prompt: Advice to a Poet

I think it's very common for people to try to create something with an expectation of how it will come out. That's not a bad thing necessarily but I feel like often people are limited by their own expectations and end up abandoning or throwing something away because it doesn't turn out how they thought it should.

Anyway, one writer who influenced me deeply gave me two pieces of advice. One was just before graduating undergrad. He said, "write a screenplay ".

The second piece of advice was given to me when he wrote me a letter of recommendation to law school (which I did not end up going to): "lawyers can write poems too."





ButterflyEffect  ·  2663 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We should never let perfection be the enemy of good.