
24 | Perfectionism Kills Your Writing
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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Perfectionism and Anxiety Are Not Motivators
The writer says perfectionism and anxiety are actually motivators. Perfectionism is a, um, acidic crumbling agent. Anxiety can feel like it's creating. But actually I talked to a friend who's a psychiatrist about this anxiety actually is a loop. And then for the rest of your life, you can imagine what would have been if you only had had the perfect right? You don't have to face that.
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