Do you like to look in a garbage?

“You can learn all you ever need to know about the competition’s operation by looking in his garbage cans. I am not above that, let me assure you, and more than once at two o’clock in the morning I have sorted through a competitor’s garbage to see how many boxes of meat he’d used the day before, how many packages of buns, and so forth.” – Grinding It Out: the making of McDonald’s by Ray Kroc

The thing is what looks like a garbage for someone could be an incredible source of information for others.

I write quite a lot. But I’m sharing normally only the stuff that I’m sure is worth to share.

Usually while I’m writing I’m very excited and sometimes even have a feeling that I’m writing a piece of art. But the very next day – I’m looking at the “piece of art” and think “this is a pile of crap”.

But what do I know? I don’t read fiction. So for me all fiction is crap. But how about others?

Derek Sivers for example have quite a complicated process that called “write a lot – share a little”. And I’m a big fan of the idea. But another authors – write and almost don’t edit. And these authors telling that sometimes they write something really crappy but readers are loving it.

In Malaysia I was told a story. Along time ago australian pilots arrived to Malaysia to teach local pilots. And the first thing they did after arriving is going to the rice fields to make pictures.

From the point of view of locals there’s nothing interesting can be found on the rice fields. Rice fields are common… like a garbage cans. But an australians would disagree.

From the point of view of a writer like me there’s so much stuff should be deleted. When I started to write for a blog I thought that if 1 newly written article out of 10 would be worth to publish – it’s gonna be great. But it turns out that I barely be able to choose 1 article out of 30. All other ones were a crap. But were they?
How should I know.