Friendly reminder to not punish yourself for creating.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by this?
I have a tendency to beat myself up whenever something I make doesn’t meet my expectations (which is always). The result is that finishing something = bad feelings: I am effectively punishing myself for having created something. The natural reaction to this punishment is an aversion to creation, meaning that my perfectionism is harming me, not only by causing me to despise what I do make and by impeding the creative process, but by attacking even my desire to create.
1. There’s 2k words down; I can fit another thousand before dinner!
2. I have 300 words left before I hit my minimum count goal and I would rather physically bury myself into the ground and die a dreadful suffocating death than write another sentence.
I’m always the second one because I worry too much about making everything sound perfect in the first draft. Pretty much 75% of my writing process is researching to make sure everything is accurate 😂😂