When I was in my final year of creative writing and preparing for my masters degree I was fortunate to be taught by a professor named Jerri Kroll, Jerri was the head of Creative Writing at Flinders University in Australia and a published childrens author. What made Jerri’s influence on me resonate was 1 very important rule she taught me, and I think this rule breaks the barrier to all creatives. Her philosophy was simple:

No matter how good or how bad it was, never under any circumstance throw out any of your writing. Put it in a cabinet, and leave it there. when your stumped or need the muse your cabinet is there.

These failures that you have had might never have come to fruition, but you wear your failures through life as badges of courage. past challenges shape your impressions on what you will do in the future, influence the decisions you’ll make on your next project, and sometimes it just means your too close to the project and need to walk away for a bit

Regardless the creative process is an amazing thing, and it comes to each one of us differently but in the end some things pop and others don’t. A lot of times its the things we want the most that don’t while the ones we really don’t care about explode, but personally and this is jut IMHO I like that you have shared these misgivings from your portfolio, and if nothing else it inspires me to want to create more…