https://writerscircleworkshops.com/2009/05/29/finished/ creative writing workshops & community Tue, 20 Feb 2018 17:57:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://writerscircleworkshops.com/2009/05/29/finished/#comment-21 Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:40:03 +0000 http://judithlindbergh.wordpress.com/?p=167#comment-21 I sympathize with perfectionism, believe me. I’m also blessed with that questionable gift. High standards are the only way we can stretch toward our work’s greatest realization. But that elusive search for perfection can leave really wonderful work languishing in a drawer or notebook or on our computer, forever hidden by our own self-doubt and uncertainty. It’s so difficult to know when enough is enough. Sometimes we over-write, whittling away our brief brush with brilliance until it’s chipped, tarnished and disfigured. Part of the craft is sensing that balance. I’m still working at it, as I know you are, Sandra. I hope your cousin will find some comfort in realizing that, for most of us, a work is never done. We just have to find the strength to let it go.

]]> https://writerscircleworkshops.com/2009/05/29/finished/#comment-20 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:07:31 +0000 http://judithlindbergh.wordpress.com/?p=167#comment-20 Thank you for telling me about “Control+”! It’s fabulous being able to make the font bigger so I can luxuriate in your words. I loved the Michener essay so much that I’m printing it out and giving it to my step-daughter who is off to college this fall.
I’m also going to send a link to this blog post to my cousin, a perfectionist of a poet who is never satisfied that any poem of his is “finished”. This persistence thing is painful but I shall not whine about it lest you run to fetch your crying towel.

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