Essays Archives - Katherine Oktober Matthews

Brilliant Failures and Second Chances

April 11, 2018
Essays, Support for Developing Artists, Writing

"To become better equipped for a world of risk and uncertainty is not to neutralize or learn to enjoy failure, but to learn how to cope with it afterward."
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (Riding the Dragon, 2018)

The Entrepreneur’s Dilemma

July 15, 2016
Essays, Support for Developing Artists, Writing

“Let’s be clear about this: working for yourself doesn’t eradicate the problem of worker exploitation. You’ve just replaced an external boss with an internal one. You’re a horse, cracking its own whip.”
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (Medium, 2016)

Plot Points: How Reading and Writing Have Ruined Us All

May 20, 2014
Essays, Writing, Writing Highlights

“While it’s relatively straight-forward to identify relevance in a story, expert constellation-formers that we are, here’s the rub: life is chock-full of irrelevance and we all like to play narrator.”
(Versal Blog, 2014)