Trust me, it’s already good enough

If you’ve known me for a while, you might realise that I have a few things going on at the same time. For example I have a novel that I have been writing (or is it planning to write?) since 2012, which has been more than 10 years. That is just one of it, there are many more. However it is always the hardest not convincing others to read the stuff you spew through your keyboard, but rather convincing yourself that it is really good enough. It is hard to work up the courage to accept that you have done something and now it is time to show to the world. It is good enough.

Then you show to the world, or at least to your close friends, and the response are less than you hoped for. Sometimes you are a bit braver and throw it to the internet, hoping that someone in the cyber world might take a fancy to it, but then it gets lost to the ether with most things published on the internet. You then say to yourself, your work is no good.

You see, the keyword here is good enough. Enough in the sense that it should be seen that you have done something, that you have poured some thoughts into it and you have put something that is worth your time in flexing your muscle of creativity, instead of mindlessly consuming ephemeral ‘content’. It does not mean your work is a masterpiece, rather it is a series of work that will lead to that masterpiece. At that time, you will be good at what you’re doing and your work will not be only be good, nor good enough, but great.

So here’s on just throwing it out there into the ether of the internet (either through ethernet or wifi, regardless) and then putting your foot forward on your upcoming masterpiece.