The "90% of everything is crap" dictum can be incredibly empowering. Read any book by successful comedy writers and they will say that 90% of the jokes they wri

The "90% of everything is crap" dictum can be incredibly empowering. Read any book by successful comedy writers and they will say that 90% of the jokes they write are bad, and they know this will be the case every time they sit down to write. It's much easier to write every day if you embrace this. If you write every day for an hour, and 10% of what comes out is good... it adds up to a ton of good material over a year.