How to Glow in the Dark

How to Glow in the Dark

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How to Glow in the Dark
How to Glow in the Dark
The violence of perfectionism
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The violence of perfectionism

I know you're just trying to be good, but you're not helping your writing career (or anything else).

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Anna Sproul-Latimer
Jun 22, 2020
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Perfectionism is a huge problem I deal with on the job. The emotional plague of the high achiever, the perceptive soul, and the people-pleaser, it is mayhaps* a little common** in book publishing (*=definitely; **=literally like 85% of our body weight by volume).

When I’m being nice, I admonish myself and my colleagues over our perfectionism thusly: we …

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