Whether it’s a bad habit or good habit, I always think in design, I can come back to this later.

I have a belief in iteration. Even more so, I believe that nothing can be perfect the first time, the second time, the third time. I also believe that every product has the ability to change and adapt.

But not writing. I desperately want to submit, but every time I look at something that I write, I keep changing the words around and around. Rarely is there a piece that I find so utterly perfect. For that to happen, the words somehow rush out of me and when I return to look at that piece, I think…there’s no way that I can create like that. Again.

Then I start this path where I think that the first draft (with a few tweaks) is perfect. But then I sit down to mold and shape it more until it becomes a sad lumpy mess and I want to be that writer that has a trash bin with overflowing crumpled pieces of paper.

When is enough, just enough? I went through at least 100 entries of this blog looking for something to submit and found myself tearing the pieces apart until the meaning, the goal of the piece became nothing to me.

There was a researcher that shared her insights from writing a how-to book. Every single time, someone asked, “What was the hardest thing in the book?”

She would describe the endless nights of writing. How she gained respect for writers. And she would always end with, “I can never go back. It’s done. Stuck in the book forever.”