I’m guest posting today over at Write to Done. Head over there to check out my post on how perfectionism is not your friend, or even your frenemy – it’s an albatross around your neck.
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I was watching Julie & Julia tonight. A rare treat to watch a movie, alone and undisturbed. Which makes me sound like a social recluse, which I’m not. But I do love to get completely lost, every now and again. To be completely immersed in something. It got me thinking about writing and the beginning. It is a cruel master and a loving mistress, sometimes separately and sometimes together.
When I still had the luxury of perfectionism and before I realised that perfectionism was seriously beating the crap out of my self esteem, …

This is our routine (ideally). Ideally is also code for NOT TEETHING, so I haven’t done this in a while. At this very moment there are dishes on the bench and a play area to clean up which I have absolutely no intention of doing tonight. Even though I know it would make everything easier tomorrow. Ok now that I’m thinking about it maybe I will do those dishes . .  .
I like routines, always have. Of course I didn’t use to have routines, I had schedules. Routines are more …

I admit it – I am a reformed perfectionist. The first time I wrote a prologue I re-wrote it hundreds of times until it was ‘perfect’. That is not an exaggeration by the way, literally hundreds of times – on a manual typewriter no less! I had flirted with the idea of ditching my perfectionism – after all if the prologue was anything to go by it would have probably taken me 50 years to get anything substantial on paper. And deep down I knew that perfectionists are always disappointed …