How to Defeat Perfectionism in Your Creative Writing

We’ve all been there before. You have this grand idea about this amazing story you want to write about, but no matter how you put it on the page, it doesn’t work.

The characters aren’t interesting enough. The dialogue is too flat. And the plot? Don’t get me started.

Nothing about what you’ve written matches the vision inside your head.

So, what do you do? You scrap it.

Why? Because it’s not good enough, and neither are you.

The struggle of perfectionism is one all creatives face. We’re unable to move forward in our work and reach the success we want to achieve because we can’t get over the fact that our work isn’t perfect.