Perfection is a bit like the Road Runner in Warner Bros. Cartoons and we're often like the Wile E. Coyote trying to catch it. We contruct eloborate plans and devices only to have perfection stick its tongue out at us and get away again. Like Wile E Coyote your energy would be better spent if you stopped chasing after perfection and started using your creativity to work towards building something solid and real. You’ll stop falling off so many cliffs that way.

       You say you don’t know what you what you want to write about or don’t have anything to say? Put that down on the page and just start writing about it. What does it feel like? How long has it been going on? Does it make you frustrated, sad, angry? Does it remind you of anything? Does it make you think you’ll end up a loser like that guy from your college poetry class? You know the one I mean. It’s important to just start writing. To get into the …