perfectionism, indecision, & letting myself make things

Jan 08, 2025

something i encounter way too often in working on my site(s) is paralyzing indecision about the stupidest things. do the stylesheets go in assets/style/ or just style/? do the image assets go in assets/media/ or just assets/?

i have encountered this again today during my blogsurfing. some bloggers indicate the date of a post in the URL, either with (sometimes-but-not-always hackable) slashes— eg. blog/2025/01/08/post— or as part of the actual filename— eg. blog/2025-01-08-post. a couple of my older posts are the latter since i used to use zonelets, but in recent months i've stuck to just putting the title or a shortened version of it as the file name. i didn't really feel weird about this before, but seeing other people do stuff a different way makes me question what i do. it's not like it really matters— i rarely write multiple posts a month, let alone a day, and duplicate titles probably aren't an issue— but it could be nice for organization or something, i don't know? also, there might be issues since i often draft posts over several days

sort of similarly, i find perfectionism sometimes hinders me when i try to make things. it's not really a problem with visual art because i've done it for years at this point, but it's an issue with writing and music— though it's getting better with the former, i think.

i need to let myself make mediocre or even bad art. i need to let myself enjoy the process of creation— even if it doesn't turn out perfect, i still want to have fun making things! i need to get over the wall of feeling bad because what i'm making doesn't feel right.

i'm think i'm okay with being indecisive. it just means i'm open-minded, or something

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until next time!


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