Day 7: Obstacles (Better Done than Perfect) with Dariel Suarez
Day 7: Obstacles (Better Done than Perfect) with Dariel Suarez
Our First Fifty-Day Writing Challenge
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Author and educator Dariel Suarez talks about the larger social and publishing concerns that could be holding you back, while trying to refocus yourself on the work in front of you.
And apparently the great Jami Attenberg was writing about the exact same idea today! Here’s Jami’s take:
Dariel Suarez is the Cuban-born author of the novel The Playwright’s House and the story collection A Kind of Solitude, winner of the International Latino Book Award for Best Collection of Short Stories. He is an inaugural City of Boston Artist Fellow and the Education Director at GrubStreet. Dariel’s writing has received the First Lady Cecile de Jongh Literary Prize and has appeared in Best American Essays, The Threepenny Review, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Michigan Quarterly Review, and The Caribbean Writer, among others. He resides in the Boston area with his wife and daughter.
Day 7: Obstacles (Better Done than Perfect) with Dariel Suarez
What a great way to start off the week--loved the conversation today and how you and Dariel shared your challenges and vulnerabilities--compare/despair--that we all have, also issues of identity and subject matter. Asking why. Plus issues re: the marketplace, pigeonholing authors, labeling. Who is our audience? And the gift of being part of a larger conversation. I experience these things in some form or fashion every single day and boy did you all make me feel good this morning! Thank you! Jessica (Keener)