Keep Your Shitty First Draft to Yourself

Thoughtful text that is concise and accessible is a mark of persistence.   No worthwhile creation is born fully-fledged.   Complex physical movements are always performed clumsily before they become fluid: walking, running, riding a bike, throwing a ball, strumming a guitar, mincing an onion, hitting fifth position…  No amount of natural ability in any of those …

The Mutiny

  It happened last night.  The Mutiny.  And it made me happy. There is a point in each semester that I give a task to students in a class I am teaching and they ignore it and do something else.  If the students already know me, it happens early on.  But if they come to …