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Publishing early work feels pointless until you look back and realise the later stuff couldn't exist without it. Same goes for any expressive work. Sounds like
by giordanol 1y ago
Publishing early work feels pointless until you look back and realise the later stuff couldn't exist without it. Same goes for any expressive work. Sounds like a platitude, but it really is all about the process.
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoIt's related to survivorship bias or whichever; successful writers have written for years already, but you / the potential writer only discover these when they're already established. Few people will actually have followed them as they progressed through the years. Anyway, point is, you read a good post whose goodness was in part due to the thousand posts before it, then think "I need to be as good as this" and you'll fail. I'm sure there's a word for that too.
- giordanol 1y agoBamboo growth pattern - years of invisible growth underground, then it suddenly shoots up 90 feet. Easy to forget how long the roots were forming.