Not sure if I understand you correctly. Are you afraid of your perfectionism stalling you?
What helps me is going in increments. I can't get things perfect, but I can make things a bit more perfect every time I work on them. Improvement motivates me, not perfection.
A short story class taught me the “one bird a a time” method. When writing a catalogue of birds you tackle it one bird at a time. Commit to writing one square inch of text a day. It doesn’t even have to mean anything.
I have a certain degree of perfectionism in my miniature painting as I began to paint. I think the flipping point was seeing artists do "imperfect" painting at a quicker pace and still coming out with beautiful art. Perfectionism in my scenario wasn't helping me grow and learn, it held me back.
All I can say is, 'perfectionism is the enemy of good enough.' It's hard to stick to, but, at 69, I'm obviously running out of time, and I'm finally learning to apply the maxim.
Just remember theres ALWAYS going to be something that could be different. Not even better or worse than what you wrote, just some second or third angle you didn't consider. You can never account for all of them yourself and anyone else who reads it will apply their own lens and logic to it.
I guess my point is, write for yourself and write in a way that makes you happy. And honestly if spending a week re-re-re-reviewing something for improvements ultimately brings you some peace then maybe that's your style. Most good writers have quirks and anxieties, it's normal
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Even if you can’t get it worded exactly how you want, you’ll at least have a second set of eyeballs looking for spelling and punctuation mistakes.
What helps me is going in increments. I can't get things perfect, but I can make things a bit more perfect every time I work on them. Improvement motivates me, not perfection.
strangely, it helps me stop worrying about it not being perfect, because I have clearly outlined how I'm going to make it better
it's okay if it's not great *YET*