In a recent podcast episode, Gabriela Pereira, author and founder of DIY MFA, discussed why it’s important for writers to embrace iteration and even failure, featuring the words of the great philosophers of . . . Yoda and Samuel Beckett. 🤔 Accepting failure is a hard pill for most . . .

. . . of us to swallow . . . especially writers. But if we give up after one failure—or worse, never begin because of the fear of failure—we’re missing out on how much better the next iteration could be.