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Writers: Perfectionism is your worst enemy.

Writers: Perfectionism is your worst enemy.

If you struggle with perfectionism when you write, you’ll want to keep reading. [Don’t forget to leave a comment to join this dialogue, and see today’s writing prompt at the bottom of the post.]

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K. E. Creighton
Jul 02, 2025
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Writers: Perfectionism is your worst enemy.
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The greatest gift any writer can give themselves is the permission to write badly— the permission to misspell words and forget to use punctuation or use the wrong punctuation and be repetitive or use everyday words instead of flowery, complicated language, etc. They should forget about making their writing ‘perfect’ as they write, in other words. Why? B…

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