- 2. Not everything is good
It’s a tough lesson, as most “artists,” following close in the heels of the entitled generation, most of us think everything we create is golden.
It’s not.
There is crap followed by dross followed by an occasional golden nugget.
Not every scintillating letter that drips from my fingertips is good – as a consistent online writer, the discovery that getting married to one’s words is a dangerous obsession.
The short form?
Not everything is good.
Ugly truth, but failure to recognize that expedient truth? It gets even uglier.
Yes, even I have blatant mistakes where everyone can see.