Comment by paulpauper
4 years ago
I don't agree, sorry to say:
1. If your work sucks, the criticism and reputational damage may make it worse than having not published at all.
2. Even if it's good, its unlikely that you will get enough traction for it to matter
3. the 'right people' are inundated with pitches, the odds they care what you have to say are tiny, and trying more times will not help of you're on the wrong track to begin with.
If somebody considers any sort of creative expression (despite it sucking or not) as a pitfall for your job or any other prospects, I don't understand why would you even entertain a discussion with them?
You always have to start somewhere, so if everyone would adhere to what you are saying - we would have 0 content in this world.
Also the answers in this entire post directly dispute #2 #3
Strong agree with point 1. As for points 2 and 3, you need to consider the cumulative effect of many works rather than just a single one. It is a very heavy-tailed distribution, with a few works getting all the attention and all others having no impact.