the Quiet Signal

In search of perfectionism

tagged as: #notes #writing #memory
current mood: unfinished
current music: Nine Inch Nails — Leaving Hope

“If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.”

– Margaret Atwood

I was gifted a copy of Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood when I was about eighteen, by a then-girlfriend.

I started to read it, enjoyed it, but at eighteen clearly had much better things to do. (I absolutely did not.)

So, as with many things, I told myself I'd come back to it later, I had all the time in the world.

The same has been true of this very post.

Instead of actually writing, I convinced myself I just needed;

Every system demanded perfection in a slightly different way.

So the writing never started.

Here's to embracing imp,erfection. (on my part)

– c.

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