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24 | Perfectionism Kills Your Writing

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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Is Your Perfectionism Coming From?

"If you're going to do something, do it right," his father used to say. "I was the first to go to an achiever and that's how I got attention ... but I know I drove my father crazy" He says he is giving himself therapy for perfectionism in order to get rid of it. The reason to do something is to experience it, not measure yourself against a bar or expectation.

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