“ Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit.
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Ira Glass, via kottke.
I can’t remember if Ira said this in the City Arts & Lecture I went to of his, or if Arielle just told me he said it, but I still find it quite true. It’s certainly why I haven’t written any fiction since my first and only creative writing class — in 2004, I think?
In other words, I may be the quitting type.
