Katie, this article is so so helpful! My mantra when I get into this space - of wanting to perfect and edit and re-edit until the cows come home - is to say “good enough is enough”. It helps take the pressure off, even if my mind is like “this paragraph is shit, this could be better etc etc” because there’s ALWAYS something I could’ve improved on. And usually in the end, it feels good to publish and people never point out what I thought “could be better”
This piece landed in my inbox on a day I really needed to work on something I’d been resisting finishing. It reminded me that my struggles aren’t even a little unique, and I can just put on my editor hat and get the darn thing off my plate. It worked! And I got back the life force that had been tied up in my unfinished work. Thank you!!
Katie, this article is so so helpful! My mantra when I get into this space - of wanting to perfect and edit and re-edit until the cows come home - is to say “good enough is enough”. It helps take the pressure off, even if my mind is like “this paragraph is shit, this could be better etc etc” because there’s ALWAYS something I could’ve improved on. And usually in the end, it feels good to publish and people never point out what I thought “could be better”
This piece landed in my inbox on a day I really needed to work on something I’d been resisting finishing. It reminded me that my struggles aren’t even a little unique, and I can just put on my editor hat and get the darn thing off my plate. It worked! And I got back the life force that had been tied up in my unfinished work. Thank you!!