Perfectionism has no place in your life as a writer. As we discussed earlier this week everyone writes crappy first drafts. If you are a perfectionist, then you will never allow yourself to write that crappy first draft, which means that you won’t write anything, ever. Perfectionism has repercussions that go well beyond your writing as
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When you imagine a writer, your favorite writer even, sitting down at their writing apparatus to compose their next piece, what do you see? Do you see a fully formed, fully confident, well paid, mentally stable human being whose supernatural connection with the universe allows beautiful, perfect words to flow right out of them with
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I often find that the getting started part is the hardest when it comes to writing, well, when it comes to anything for that matter. Perfect example. I hate to wash dishes. And I will just look at that sink full of dirty dishes and think, “Uggggghhhhhhh……….I don’t WANT to wash the dishes!!” But, if
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Writers are often introverts. It is not so much that they don’t like to be around people, though that can be true, it is more that writers find it easier to be inside their own heads where their stories lie. Writers like to hole up in their workspace and type out characters, and stories, and
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