'Everything I Do Has to Be Perfect!'

Perfection is for idiots.

Cleft (1975) by Helen Lundeberg

Dear Polly,

I’m a writer, and everything I write has to be beautiful and poetic. Everything I say has to be beautiful and poetic. If it’s not, I feel completely worthless. I’ve tried to tell myself that it’s okay to not be perfect, okay to just write and talk like myself —but every time I sit down to try and write something…