09-11-2016, 07:14 PM
(09-11-2016, 08:19 AM)Lost Rinoah Wrote:(09-10-2016, 08:37 PM)YDH Wrote: Oh yeah, the feeling that your work is not good enough is killer. Thing is, everybody gets that feeling. You have to push through and finish the work anyway--otherwise you'll never finish anything, and you'll never get better.
Depends actually. A lot of times it is good to step back shut up and look at the bigger picture, and come back later, when you've thought about it more. Other times step up and get shit done. After all I've rushed things and they always turn out horrible. But I've also forced myself to write even when I didn't want to. (IE writers block) And the only things that hold up to my own criticisms were while I had writers block and kept going anyways. Every single one I can barely believe were written by me.
Sure, quality is very important. But all too often people want to do something creative but all their projects bog down and run out of steam, fall into endless rewrites, of just get shoved to the side because the writer doesn't feel they're good enough. In these cases, all the stepping back and rethinking won't help--the only way to overcome this particular problem is to force yourself to accept your work as "good enough" and finish it despite its flaws. Don't rush it, but if it's just stagnating, push through and finish it even if it's not as good as you want it to be. Let it be what it is, and you'll learn from it and do better the next time.
I did this with every episode of STMB, and you can see it get better as it goes along.