In one of my favorite videos of all time, Ira Glass talks about what it means to have your own work disappoint you, and how the only way to respond is to keep churning out more work. He talks about how even his own work stunk when he started.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI23U7U2aUY
For every creative matter there will be tension between what you aspire to do, and what you just made in front of you. Keep pushing on and churning out those ideas anyway. Close that gap by returning to your work.
This blog is one way I am trying to do that. Thanks for reading.
[Here is the first post I wrote back in the summer of 2013 when I was eighteen. Much has changed since then.]