Perfectionism Shmerfectionism (How to Half-Ass Your Writing on Purpose)

Taking on The Four Horsemen of Procrastination, one at a time...

Art by Mariam Chagelishvili

Every Friday this month, we’re targeting a different Horseman of the Procrastinocalypse so you can get out of your own way, tell writer’s block to go screw itself, and start writing something. Missed last week? Start here »

Okay peaches, let’s talk about how perfectly imperfect the whole creative process is.

Because sometimes (often) that need for everything to be ‘just right’ can stop us from even starting.

Sometimes we can set our expectations so high that we’d rather stay in the safe liminal space of ‘wanting to write’ instead of actually writing.

Introducing:

The Second Horseman of the Procrastinocalypse:
✨ Perfectionism ✨

Here are some bullshit things perfectionism tells us about our writing: