I Want To Remember Exactly What He Said
It’s so easy to remember bad things and so much harder to remember great things.
A student came by during office hours yesterday. He’s had a rough patch and he’s thinking about a fantastic next move, a move that is brave and brilliant and difficult to explain to parents: graduate school in game design. I’ve never met a student better suited to this quest. But for him, the present and the future are both incredibly complicated and confusing right now. So I was really stunned when he said, “Every incoming freshman should have to take your class, Writing True Stories.” He said that’s how he found his voice as a writer—for fiction, term papers, online, everything. And also how he found a way to write and think about messy life.
I spend so much time dwelling on the mistakes I make. I am taking this moment to dwell on a thing we did that was good, really good. And this is why we are doing all this daily writing. It matters. Like eating well, like meditating, the daily writing helps everything
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