If you deal with perfectionism as a creative, I suggest checking out this blog by Renée Brack.
www.stage32.com/blog/how-perfectionism-kills-your-craft-crushes-your-spi...
Screenwriting : How Perfectionism Kills Your Craft & Crushes Your Spirit by Maurice Vaughan
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As a screenwriter I just try to write good screenplays that I hope would make good movies.
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Not saying it doesn’t exist. But, if people knew the target state, perfection may not be a bad thing.
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What do you mean "But, if people knew the target state," Craig D Griffiths?
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If someone knows what they are trying to achieve. Then perfection is a great thing. It can be harnessed. Hemingway wrote the opening chapter of one of his books over 100 hundred times. Eventually his publisher stole it.
But most people that don’t know, really know what they are trying to achieve just keep changing what they have in a hope that suddenly and magically something great will appear.
I am all for constant change in my work. I am rewriting something that I finished in 2017 because a producer told me they are taking it to someone new. I know 2023 Craig is better than 2017 Craig. Some of the story has to change.