We have all heard it, anything worth doing is worth doing well. We heard it as children and we probably have said it to others as adults. But, is there room to do something badly? According to some people, there is. G. K. Chesterton was a prolific writer and Christian philosopher who lived in the […]

For the writers who struggle with severe procrastination, or severe perfectionism, they also experience a sickening feeling of shame that accompanies the writer’s block that’s causing them so much trouble. They assume that they’re not motivated enough, or that they need to try harder, or “just get over it.” However, if the procrastination or perfectionism is of the severe type (and not just experienced occasionally or fleetingly), then the roots of the block go much deeper than most writers suspect.