You’re not letting anyone down by taking time for yourself.
5 healthy, low-pressure ways to fit writing into a time of anxiety
The following 6 posts mention perfectionism:
Making time to write: the magic of ugly placeholder sentences
You can always improve on bad writing, but you can’t edit an empty page. Here’s four ways that peppering your pages with unpolished trains-of-thought helps you make the most out of the hours you’ve got.
Reading your older works (and getting over the embarrassment)
You might find yourself waking up at 4 in the morning with one thought in your head: better delete that! Here’s how to learn from your mistakes, rather than pretend they never existed.
3 reasons why you should outline your novel. Maybe.
Outlining isn’t a fix for the pressures of writing a novel, but it’s a relief.
To the writers who will settle for nothing less than perfect
This is my love letter to you, because I am one of you. I am a perfectionist, a planner, and an editor — and I barely have any finished novels to my name.