Comments on: Is Perfectionism Killing Your Writing Career? https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/09/is-perfectionism-killing-your-writing-career/ Author, Blogger, Social Media Jedi Sat, 23 Jan 2016 17:13:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: annabellefranklinauthor https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/09/is-perfectionism-killing-your-writing-career/#comment-61136 Sat, 23 Jan 2016 17:13:39 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=17755#comment-61136 As a child, I was told “If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well.” Result: if I didn’t believe I could do something well, I wouldn’t bother to do it at all. It took a long time to get out of that mindset, and sometimes I’m still paralysed by perfectionism. I wish someone had told me “Perfect is the enemy of the good.” Thank you for this wonderful advice!

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]]> By: Cecilia Marie Pulliam https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/09/is-perfectionism-killing-your-writing-career/#comment-61134 Thu, 08 Oct 2015 18:46:56 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=17755#comment-61134 Oh boy, did I need to read this! Thank you, Kristen.

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]]> By: Author Kristen Lamb https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/09/is-perfectionism-killing-your-writing-career/#comment-61130 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 13:45:41 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=17755#comment-61130 In reply to Talia Pente.

LOL.

]]> By: Talia Pente https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/09/is-perfectionism-killing-your-writing-career/#comment-61129 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 01:14:52 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=17755#comment-61129 —> Perfectionism <— Ahem. Kristen. I have a cease and desist ordinance against you for writing about me in this blog without my expressed permission. I have.Here.In my hands. I was going to mail it you but then I thought…maybe I need to rethink my motivation…hmm…and is the word desist…or de-cyst because that sounds kinda painful. Maybe I should research the origins of perfectionism in the human psyche… I should just go over it one more time.

Oh. You get my point.

😉

]]> By: Kathryn Leigh https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/09/is-perfectionism-killing-your-writing-career/#comment-61128 Thu, 24 Sep 2015 22:04:26 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=17755#comment-61128 Kristen,

Thank you for this post. I’m looking at entering my manuscript into a contest next month, and my desire for perfection is probably crippling me a bit.

Kathryn Leigh

]]> By: J. Kolb https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/09/is-perfectionism-killing-your-writing-career/#comment-61127 Mon, 21 Sep 2015 22:16:11 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=17755#comment-61127 Yes, yes, yes, yes. Which is why I am back in college. I decided a few years back my writing was crap. I have been beating myself with the ‘my writing is crap’ noodle over and over and over. Now, I could be sitting here writing and writing, then editing, editing, and more editing and multiple rewrites that are necessary to practice this craft. Instead – I let my fear of being lazy (writing, editing, and rewriting is NOT being lazy – that is professional behavior – says my wiser self) get the better of me.

BUT – that can also work against me as well, as you point out here.

Working at being my own best friend instead of my own worst enemy.
Thanks again Kristen!

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