For the last few years, I’ve been going through some creative hurdles. It’s impacted my music-making and my web development. Using the guitar as the reference point, things often go like this:
1. I’ve done a thing that sounds cool.
2. Wait, what if it isn’t that cool? What if others think it’s stupid?
3. How do I make this thing not sound stupid to other people?
4. Completely abandon the idea entirely because I think it might actually just be stupid in concept.

This is really bad because I never actually get the feedback, I just assume it’s not good and completely give up. While it’s important to strive to do the best I can, I also know (and have had others even tell me) that my work can be good. I can’t assume what others think just because of a hunch - instead I need to pump work out and get real, unbiased feedback from people.

Now to just find the time to actually record that work and put it up somewhere…