Despite the fact that the only deadlines I have are self imposed, I totally relate to the "This rules/no this sucks/no this is just 'meh'" process of putting things into the world...for way too long it kept me paralyzed from doing anything but filling up notebooks with stuff I thought was hot shit one minute, then too embarrassing to look at ever again shortly thereafter. I don't know what did it, but something finally clicked in my head where I just decided "fuck it, just DO something...if it's good then great; and if it really does suck then keep doing it until it doesn't suck." (Of course, it's easy to be sanguine about such things if you assume that no one is actually paying attention...I guess if I thought I had any audience I might be a little more self-conscious about it. But, at least for me, that feels like putting the cart before the horse...)
I just always return to that Beckett line: "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Fail again. Fail better."
Despite the fact that the only deadlines I have are self imposed, I totally relate to the "This rules/no this sucks/no this is just 'meh'" process of putting things into the world...for way too long it kept me paralyzed from doing anything but filling up notebooks with stuff I thought was hot shit one minute, then too embarrassing to look at ever again shortly thereafter. I don't know what did it, but something finally clicked in my head where I just decided "fuck it, just DO something...if it's good then great; and if it really does suck then keep doing it until it doesn't suck." (Of course, it's easy to be sanguine about such things if you assume that no one is actually paying attention...I guess if I thought I had any audience I might be a little more self-conscious about it. But, at least for me, that feels like putting the cart before the horse...)
I just always return to that Beckett line: "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Fail again. Fail better."