The title of today’s newsletter was taken from cartoonist Sarah Leavitt’s talk on joyful persistence:
What if you make a big pile of imperfect things?
What if your job is experimentation, exploring, repeating, failing, learning,
continuing?For those of you who’ve taken my classes, you know that I am always encouraging you to waste paper. You will not be the reason that our forests disappear. Take up the whole page with your drawing. Write everything, don’t worry about who will like it, stop editing in advance! Write every day! Draw every day! Worry less about each individual word or picture. Identify the things you want to get better at and do them over and over.
The finished pieces that we share – they’re dependent on these messy piles of imperfection…
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