Christi CJ Daugherty/Ava Glass

Simply the absolute best advice. The next time someone asks me how they can become a better writer – and a better person! – I'm going to show them this letter.
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RT @MichaelWarbur17
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.
https://twitter.com/MichaelWarbur17/status/1561691595505864705

Michael Warburton on Twitter

“In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond. His reply was a doozy.”

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Show threadT1DannaNov 15, 2022
@CJDaugherty I love this. I read it first some years ago and it struck me as the best advice to give not just to someone who wanted to be a writer, not just to someone, but to everyone. A way to bring joy to being.
Show threadSantiago PardoNov 15, 2022
@CJDaugherty Amazing. Great stuff.
Show threadMichal SiedlaczekNov 15, 2022
@CJDaugherty there's a book "if this isn't nice, what is?", which is a collection of his commencement speeches. This letter reminded me of those.
Show threadSoh Kam YungNov 15, 2022

@CJDaugherty @Raspberry_Pi I may have read this before in the Letters Of Note website.

https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/make-your-soul-grow

'Make your soul grow'

Kurt Vonnegut, 84, writes to some students

Letters of Note
Show threadTaid TôbiNov 15, 2022
@CJDaugherty heart warming! Thank you.
Show threadthemakNov 15, 2022
@CJDaugherty
Wow. Thanks for sharing
Show threadCarol Baker-Longshaw 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Nov 15, 2022
@CJDaugherty is Micheal on here? I think his feeds are great
Show threadJeremy Paul CarrollNov 15, 2022
@CJDaugherty we've seen this before, but it is always worth repeating. It should be pinned up on the wall of every schoolroom in every country as a maxim for life.
It says so much about what a great person Vonnegut was, but also explains why his writing was so unique
Show threadMartin MalcolmNov 15, 2022
@CJDaugherty lovely advice and to know that Becoming was there way before we all got mindful. #becoming
Show threadHipster0075Nov 15, 2022
@MartinMalcolm @CJDaugherty what a fabulous response from an amazing artist. If only modern literature was as insightful as the works of Vonnegut, Bradbury, and Wells. The world will never know their like again, and so it goes.
Show threadAbhishek SNov 15, 2022
@CJDaugherty sometimes advice like this is what you need to hear to finish that piece that you’ve abandoned for last 6 months XD
Show thread[email protected]Nov 16, 2022
@CJDaugherty I saw this a while back. I love it!
Show threadBlue Cat Defends!Nov 16, 2022
@CJDaugherty I have been writing a story I’ve been wanting to write for about twenty two years, but haven’t because I’m not a great writer. I’m 200 pages into it now and this post comes with impeccable timing! ❤️
Show threadChristi CJ Daugherty/Ava GlassNov 18, 2022
@bluecat I love this!!
Show threadTim JNov 19, 2022
@CJDaugherty This is brilliant, and his spelling of "receptacle" was creative. But that's encouraging: even a great author might not have perfect spelling, and maybe we need to know that being perfect isn't the point . . .
Show threadChristi CJ Daugherty/Ava GlassNov 20, 2022
@timtfj Absolutely! I never won a spelling bee in my life, and yet I've never been anything but a writer. And I kind of love that spelling isn't writing.