Post History
There's a technique that can be helpful for someone imprisoned by perfectionism, but it does require a certain amount of willingness to try it: The idea is that you commit to producing a certain a...
Answer
#3: Attribution notice added
by
System
·
2019-12-08T02:36:28Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/18817 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
by
Chris Sunami
·
2019-12-08T02:36:28Z (almost 5 years ago)
There's a technique that can be helpful for someone imprisoned by perfectionism, but it does require a certain amount of willingness to try it: The idea is that you commit to producing a certain amount of writing daily --say 1 page --and that the writing should be deliberately bad: nonsense, stream of consciousness, even just keyboard mashing. It doesn't need to be on topic in any way, and no editing, or fixing of errors is allowed. The writing should not be graded or judged in any way. In fact, it doesn't even need to be read, as long as you can confirm it's actually being produced. The idea is that it opens the gates, and gets past the tyranny of the blank page. However, it may take a while of doing this exercise before purposeful writing can be reintroduced.
#1: Imported from external source
by
System
·
2015-08-28T14:45:04Z (about 9 years ago)
Original score: 1