It just needs to exist because then you give yourself something to go back and work with and improve.”Ĭooper was originally scheduled for a visit in 2020 before the COVID-19 pandemic canceled plans. “Your first draft does not need to be perfect, it does not even need to be good. “It was a terrible first draft, but I always tell students that’s OK,” she said. “Sticks and Stones” was published in 2016, and was initially written in 2013 as a response to a challenge for National Writing Month, which is in November. “I would have students in the library saying, ‘I want to check-out this book, I want to read this book, but I’m not smart enough to read this book.’ Or, ‘I’m too dumb to read something like this,’ and that made me very sad.”Īnd that was a message she wanted to drive home: kindness towards yourself.
“Mostly I noticed the ways they would speak about themselves, and that really … struck me the most,” she said.
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