Perfectionism Isn’t Noble. You’re Simply Procrastinating

10 Painful Lessons from a Recovering Perfectionist

Bryan Collins
Become a Writer Today
8 min readFeb 2, 2024

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In my twenties, I took a series of intense creative writing classes at the Irish Writer’s Centre in Dublin's city centre.

Our instructor, a balding novelist in his late, tasked us with writing one great true sentence.

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