Progress or perfection? 5 proven ways to keep calm and write on…

It’s terribly frustrating isn’t it?

Cynthia Marinakos
Mission.org
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9 min readFeb 22, 2018

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Photo by Cynthia Marinakos.

Your masterpiece — that perfect piece of writing — is trapped inside you. Like a wolf howling to the moon in despair.

Clawing frantically to escape.

To reach as many people as quickly as you can with your ideas. With your words of reassurance, your wise words of reason, your words of inspiration. The words you know people need to hear.

But you’re scared.

You’re scared of starting that shitty first draft.

You’re scared of starting then getting your ideas jumbled and lost in the black hole of research in your eagerness to write a helpful, credible, inspiring piece.

You’re scared to you’ll never live up to your own expectations and….

*THUD!*

You drop your writing like a 50kg weight you never should have tried to lift in the first place… Losing the oomph to try again.

Urgh!

How are you ever going to stand out with your writing when you can’t start — or finish the bloody thing?

How can you build a following and a business when perfection keeps stifling your work? Getting in the way of progress

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Cynthia Marinakos
Mission.org

Aussie Copywriter. I love rock climbing high ceilings and hiking amongst ferns.