遇到創作瓶頸時，你需要這支影片－THE GAP by Ira Glass

這支影片是導演／攝影師Daniel Sax的作品，旁白取自美國公共電台主持人Ira Glass的訪談內容。

以下為旁白的中英文字稿：

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 … we get into it because we have good taste. But it’s like 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 not that great. It’s really not that great. 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, and your taste is good enough that you can tell that what you’re making is kind of a disappointment to you, you know what I mean?

A lot of people never get past that phase. A lot of people at that point, they quit. And the thing I would just like say to you with all my heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work, they went through a phase of years where they had really good taste and they could tell what they were making wasn’t as good as they wanted it to be — they knew it fell short, it didn’t have the special thing that we wanted it to have.

And the thing I would say to you is everybody goes through that. And for you to go through it, if you’re going through it right now, if you’re just getting out of that phase — you gotta know it’s totally normal.

And the most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work — do a huge volume of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week, or every month, you know you’re going to finish one story. Because it’s only by actually going through a volume of work that you are actually going to catch up and close that gap. And the work you’re making will be as good as your ambitions. It takes a while, it’s gonna take you a while — it’s normal to take a while. And you just have to fight your way through that, okay?

沒有人告訴初學者──我真希望有人告訴我──我們之所以從事創造性工作，是因為我們有良好的品味。但實力和品味之間有一段差距，在最初的幾年中，你很努力，也很有野心，但你的創作就是差強人意。但是你的品味──也就是使你投身創作的要素──仍是出色的，足以讓你看出自己的創作讓自己失望，你懂我的意思嗎？

很多人尚未度過那個階段便放棄了。我真心誠意想告訴你的是，我認識的每位優秀創作者，幾乎都經歷過這個時期──有好幾年的時間，他們優良的品味讓他們能看出自己的創作不如自己想要的那般好，他們知道作品未達水準，它缺乏我們想要的特色。

我想對你說，這是每個人的必經之路。不論你是正在經歷，抑或是剛脫離，為了順利度過這時期，你必須了解這再正常不過了。

你所能做的最重要的事就是不斷創作──大量的創作。為自己設定截止日期，這樣你就知道每週或每月，你要完成一個故事*。因為只有透過實際大量創作才能真正彌補並縮小品味和實力之間的差距。你的作品將會達到理想狀態，通常這會花你一段時間。你只需在這期間努力創作，突破瓶頸，好嗎？

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*Ira Glass在訪談中談的是說故事，此處可替換成其他創作形式。