there is beauty in wanting to be fluent in your chosen creative language- but perfectionism supersedes that urge. perfectionism is wanting to be unharmable. your comparisons are not your peers but God or whatever other force rules benevolent and unquestionable over this cosmos. it is striving for that which is beyond humanness-after all, we accept... See more

toni morrison did not learn rhythm. it flowed through her like notes from a saxophone, booming and unmissable. so i must stop chasing her and remember that i was born with a rhythm of my own.

i don’t know who needs to hear this but you are worthy of respect even if you are mediocre. your writing will find a home, no matter how you feel about the sentence structure. your thoughts are important, even if they come out ineloquent. not every piece you create will be life altering; every artist, no matter how brilliant, has a skip in the... See more

why do we let our own self-doubt poison our love affair with ourselves?