July 8, 2009 6:38 AM

Process matters, even when you get it wrong

Over and over again. Louis Menand on creative writing workshops, with a lesson more widely applicable to creative process explorations, such as innovation: "I don't think the workshops taught me too much about craft, but they did teach me about the importance of making things, not just reading things. You care about things that you make, and that makes it easier to care about things that other people make."

Thoughts?