The Benefits of Allowing Yourself to Write Badly

If you tend to be a perfectionist when you write, like I am, you’ll want to read this post. Then be sure to leave a comment to join this dialogue and check out today’s writing prompt.

Like many writers, I tend to be a perfectionist when I write. I often agonize over word placement and vocabulary and punctuation and will rewrite the same sentence ten times before I’m somewhat satisfied with it. As a result, I tend to take a decent amount of time to write pretty much anything and often write much slower than other writers. When other w…