Today you may sit down and write something you will, at some later point, be a bit disappointed in.

This is what writing is, and why publishing can be so deceptive. Everything actually remains an unfinished draft, even when it's locked into place on paper. You could always do better, which time will reveal to you soon enough, the cruel wretch.

However, you're never going to be as disappointed in yourself as this reporter was.

You're got this. Crack onwards.