創作者的必經之路Tue Jun 02 2015
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste.
But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you
into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit.
Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this.
And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work."
-- by Ira Glass
從來沒有人告訴初學者一件事，我希望當初有人能告訴我。我們這些從事創意產業的人，我們會踏進這個領域是因為我們有好的品味在。
但這中間有一道鴻溝。在剛開始的前幾年中，你會做出些東西來，但成果就是不怎麼好。這個是一個「試著去做出好東西」的過程，這些東西有潛力，但是現下還不到那種程度。
但因為你自己的品味跟眼光，也就是當初引領你進入這裡的那樣東西，仍然是個利器。你的品味和眼光正是讓你對你作品失望的原因，多數的人跨不過這道挑戰，他們在中途選擇放棄。
很多我認識能做這些有趣、有創意工作的人花了好數年才跨過這道鴻溝。我們知道我們的作品，在剛開始就是欠缺了那個讓我們品味能認同的點，這是必經之路。
如果你正處於開始這個挑戰的階段，你要知道這是必經的過程，跨過他的方法就是不斷地去做。
-- POIfessor 翻譯