Your creative voice will change over the years. Don’t marry the style you have at sixteen.

Styles are places you pass through rather than things you own. What you make at sixteen is honest for sixteen, and holding onto it a decade later would mean refusing everything you learn in between. People who commit too hard to an early identity end up defending it instead of working. Letting it change is how the work stays alive.

Keep making what you are making without treating it as a promise. Write down one thing you currently believe about your work and put the date on it. Look at it in a year and let yourself disagree.