{"id":6384,"date":"2015-06-01T07:08:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T13:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6384"},"modified":"2015-06-01T07:08:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T13:08:22","slug":"how-to-find-your-place-in-the-world-after-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6384","title":{"rendered":"How to Find Your Place in the World After Graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/31\/opinion\/sunday\/how-to-find-your-place-in-the-world-after-graduation.html?_r=0\">Pamela Druckerman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Your first attempt will be terrible. A large part of the creative process is tolerating the gap between the glorious image you had in your mind, and the sad thing you\u2019ve just made. Remember that everything great you see started out as someone else\u2019s bad first draft. Version No. 20 of your work may still not be brilliant. But version No. 1 almost definitely won\u2019t be. And if you think it is, look again. Whenever someone sends me a manuscript and says, \u201cIt just flowed out of me,\u201d I usually think: Let it flow back into you for a while.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Everything that happens is potential inspiration. Or as Nora Ephron reminded us, \u201cEverything is copy.\u201d When someone tells you a story, you notice a recurring theme in conversations, or you turn a corner and see something that moves you \u2014 use it. In fact, when you\u2019re deep into a project, information about it will pour into your life. Write your thoughts down immediately. One of the great joys of a creative life is that your observations and loose moments aren\u2019t lost forever; they live in your work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pamela Druckerman: Your first attempt will be terrible. A large part of the creative process is tolerating the gap between the glorious image you had in your mind, and the sad thing you\u2019ve just made. Remember that everything great you see started out as someone else\u2019s bad first draft. Version No. 20 of your work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6385,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384\/revisions\/6385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}