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Wonderful advice. I'm still totally in that stage, and it's hard because every now and then I write something small - maybe a poem, maybe just a single scene in a short story, and I can tell that it's *good*. Which makes the huge volume of crap that I write most of the time that much more depressing.
And you start to ask yourself why? If you're in this stage, you're most likely not making any kind of living on your writing, so you have a full-time job, perhaps a family, things like grocery shopping and laundry and doctor's appointments and all this other stuff that needs to be done. Why am I spending so much time and effort on something that I know will never be published, that almost no one but me will ever read, because it *sucks*. Especially those of us who grew up with the "if it's worth doing, it's worth doing well" philosophy and its corollary "if you can't do something well, don't do it at all".
So yeah, this is really good advice. And something I think all creative types need to be reminded of frequently.