Twenty years ago, I was paralyzed with depression and its sidekick: fear. A bad marriage and a worse divorce had reduced me to almost nothing. After years of having been told that I was not an artist, I had quit painting, and I had been silenced from the years of having been shamed about my…
Tag: Perfectionism
A Need for Perfectionism Sparks the Internal Editor that Destroys Both the Writer’s and the Artist’s Work
Yesterday, a Twitter discussion focused on the Internal Editor or the Self Editor which is crippling for writers and for visual artists, too. The quintessential writer Anne Lamott had something to say about Perfectionism. “Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole…