This reminds me of Stephen King's reflections from his book "On Writing": > Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being

This reminds me of Stephen King's reflections from his book "On Writing": > Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it. There's always room for iterative improvement with feedback from others, but you need to first make something you believe in. This kind of clashes with the idea of finding problems to solve for other people, but I frequently see advice to "solve your own problems" first, because you know them better than other people's problems.