During the business of formatting my Holy Bull manuscript to meet University Press of Kentucky submission standards, it seems I can always find one more little tweak to make. On the one hand, I do want to turn in the best piece of writing possible. On the other, absolute perfection isn't possible, at least for a project in which the beauty of a particular turn of phrase or the best wording of a paragraph are often in the eye of the beholder.
At some point, I'm going to have to turn off my internal critic, and with the deadline coming up two weeks from tomorrow, that had better be pretty soon. Sometimes "good enough" is the enemy of the best, but I think in this case, an unattainable perfection is the enemy of "good enough"---especially if I'm ever going to get anything else done!
At some point, I'm going to have to turn off my internal critic, and with the deadline coming up two weeks from tomorrow, that had better be pretty soon. Sometimes "good enough" is the enemy of the best, but I think in this case, an unattainable perfection is the enemy of "good enough"---especially if I'm ever going to get anything else done!