A great blog I found. When we find ourselves too focused on perfectionism.
Last time I wrote about stress and how it can kill creativity. Many “normal” people (code for “non writers”) see our job as play, as fun. They really don’t grasp what goes into creating the stories they all enjoy and that it is a lot of work. Also, because our field is so subjective, writers […]
via Is Perfectionism Killing Your Success? — Kristen Lamb’s Blog
There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
Aristotle.
Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well, whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Charles Dickens.
“A bad book is as much a labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.” – Aldous Huxley, English, writer
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