Managing Perfection-ism=more writing

My thesis advisor used to remind me of Voltaire's famous quote: "The perfect is the enemy of the good," meaning in my case, when I spent too much time obsessively researching and rewriting chapters, they weren't being completed on time, deadlines were being missed and I needed to realize that Good, Finished work was better than (potentially) Brilliant incomplete work.

I was reminded of my grad school days and the lingering tendencies I have with regard to needing "one more source", or "another edit" ... or even to walk the dog, when I read Chris Brogan's piece on how to write/publish more blog posts.  Here's the link: http://bit.ly/966Poo.  He's got some great tips, but my favorite piece of advice by far is this:

 According to Brogan, one of the keys to writing is Absolution:

 "You are hereby granted permission to write imperfectly", he says, adding "You are hereby granted permission to write clunkers. You are hereby granted permission to write posts that you don’t think are finished, and push publish anyway."

Thanks Chris, that's the best writing advice I've heard all week!

~k.