fail better

Guest Blogger Mary Catharine Martin | Giant cockroaches will destroy us (or: a few stories about failure and encouragement)

When I was in third grade, I wrote a short story about a young girl and her family fleeing Earth because giant, intelligent cockroaches were taking over the world. Our class sat on the rug around our teacher, Mrs. Braaten, as she read the first page out loud, yelling the dialogue attributed to the cockroaches; I had handwritten their […]

Guest Blogger Mary Catharine Martin | Giant cockroaches will destroy us (or: a few stories about failure and encouragement) Read More »

Andromeda: Orphaned or Estranged — How Writers Feel About Their Past Work

“All novels are failed novels,” visiting writer Dani Shapiro told writers this past weekend at the 49 Writers Tutka Bay Retreat. I completely agree. And I’ve always found both inspiration and consolation from that Samuel Beckett quote: “No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” What ends up on the page is usually more than

Andromeda: Orphaned or Estranged — How Writers Feel About Their Past Work Read More »

Scroll to Top