You Don’t Have to Be a Perfectionist to Write

But you have to write

Dayton Parks

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A smiling woman in a forest. You Don’t Have to Be a Perfectionist to Write.
Image by lisa runnels from Pixabay

If you are a new writer who rewrites your stories over and over because they aren’t good enough, you just might be a perfectionist. I’m not talking about a rewrite or two so you can fix spelling, grammatical, and structural errors. Those are necessary edits and you shouldn’t neglect them. But rewriting a story over and over because it doesn’t “feel”…

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Dayton Parks

Published in The Ascent, The Writing Cooperative, Illumination-curated, Writers’ Blokke.