A beginner on a creative journey, I too have faced a similar situation – unfinished drafts and discarded ideas, only because they were not as “perfect” as they could be. What good is perfection, if it leaves you paralyzed? A nice post I found useful in reminding me to write for the right reason! 🙂
There was a time, not too long ago, when I couldn’t have imagined calling myself a writer—and by “writer,” I mean the kind that gets paid to do work that’s actually published in print and credited through a byline. During that time, I did write, but I only wrote either for personal reasons (in a private journal or this blog), or for the ghostwriting assignments I took as a freelance web content writer.
During that time, I was but a girl who wrote and loved writing, but nothing more than that. And I was quite happy with how things were—I loved my craft, and it loved me back.
And then the unthinkable happened.
The opportunity came for me to get published in this month’s issue of a national teen girls magazine, the glossy kind I liked to feel with my fingers, the smell of which I was addicted to, the…
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Echoes In The Ether 
The moment you go from thinking you might have something to believing you have is a huge jump. Many people are afraid to take that leap. What’s worse is that they have the power to do it but something or someone is holding them back.
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I haven’t personally had that revelation, yet, but yes, I can see how that can be a huge jump, life altering even. If only no one was held back by circumstances, other people, their own insecurities, etc….imagine then the world we could have with such people. 🙂
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