OK, I'm having a bad week. On top of being sick, I went back to work yesterday, my brain still wasn't working right, then I screwed up royally on something. Now I'm beating myself up about it because I feel terrible about it. What makes it worse is that I attempted to fix it on my own but that didn't work out so I had to own up to my mistake. Dangit. Dangit. Dangit.
Truly, the issue I screwed up on is not the end of the world, but I did have to apologize and on top of it I can't seem to shake it so I'm sitting here feeling bad. Can I go home now and go back to bed?
Gargh and Gag.
OK, back to the more important topic of writing, I think today's topic will be perfectionism. I'm a bit of a perfectionist in most areas. And when something isn't perfect, I beat myself up about it and sometimes even allow the mistake to become an obstacle to succeeding. Writing has forced me to let go of that a bit. You can't be perfect all the time, but as long as something's not published, you can always go back and fix it.
I had to actually learn to take a deep breath and allow myself to write crap because everybody's gotta start somewhere. It's a bit astonishing how difficult I find that to do, although it has gotten a bit easier with time.
Anyway, crappy day and it's only 9:22 in the morning. Somebody shoot me now. :-)
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