Ira Glass has some great advice about creativity. Absolutely applicable to journalism….
“Nobody tells people who are beginners, and I really wish somebody had told this to me, is that all of us who do creative work… that there’s a gap. That for the first couple years that you’re making stuff, what you’re making isn’t so good? OK? It’s trying to be good. It has ambition to be good, but it’s not quite that good. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, your taste is still killer.”
Via lens culture.
Just keep working. kelseywanderer:
journalism and especially relevant after our Teen Writer! workshop on Saturday…....“Nobody...
This is exactly what I struggle with every single day I go to work, and gets directly to this heart of this...
Preach, Ira Glass.
Ira Glass on storytelling, but goes for a lot of stuff
Oh hey. I was just talking about this/posting the text form of this.