Katherine Morgan Schafler

I might as well, you know, give up. And it's so difficult to contend with that. Whereas like a messy perfectionist, get the project started, then get a procrastinator perfectionist or one of the other kinds of perfectionists in the mix, someone who's naturally structured and it's going to help you to see the project through.

I identify, for example, mostly as a messy perfectionist, which is why I have zero interest in self-publishing any of my books, because I need a team of people around me to help bring the project to conclusion and worry about things that are very detail-oriented, like I don't even know the language to use for like binding the book and sending it to this factory or whatever else. Like, no thanks.

I identify, for example, mostly as a messy perfectionist, which is why I have zero interest in self-publishing any of my books, because I need a team of people around me to help bring the project to conclusion and worry about things that are very detail-oriented, like I don't even know the language to use for like binding the book and sending it to this factory or whatever else. Like, no thanks.

I identify, for example, mostly as a messy perfectionist, which is why I have zero interest in self-publishing any of my books, because I need a team of people around me to help bring the project to conclusion and worry about things that are very detail-oriented, like I don't even know the language to use for like binding the book and sending it to this factory or whatever else. Like, no thanks.

I would like a publisher to do that. I would like my agent to help me, you know, share the idea with other people. Once I generate it and once I write it, like then I just do, I just finished the rest by getting a ton of help constantly, you know?

I would like a publisher to do that. I would like my agent to help me, you know, share the idea with other people. Once I generate it and once I write it, like then I just do, I just finished the rest by getting a ton of help constantly, you know?

I would like a publisher to do that. I would like my agent to help me, you know, share the idea with other people. Once I generate it and once I write it, like then I just do, I just finished the rest by getting a ton of help constantly, you know?

Yeah. Someone asked me on a panel once, like, so how did you decide to go with the publisher and not self-publish? And I could not stop laughing because I was like, I, just publishers do so much work and agents and there's so much behind the scenes stuff that is so hard and tedious and like doing that in addition to the creative work of putting something out into the world.

Yeah. Someone asked me on a panel once, like, so how did you decide to go with the publisher and not self-publish? And I could not stop laughing because I was like, I, just publishers do so much work and agents and there's so much behind the scenes stuff that is so hard and tedious and like doing that in addition to the creative work of putting something out into the world.

Yeah. Someone asked me on a panel once, like, so how did you decide to go with the publisher and not self-publish? And I could not stop laughing because I was like, I, just publishers do so much work and agents and there's so much behind the scenes stuff that is so hard and tedious and like doing that in addition to the creative work of putting something out into the world.

I don't, I can't do that. And I don't want to learn how, because I don't need to, you know, because you can have people who are very good at that and who love doing that and for whom that is a strength and could do that really easily. You can have those people help you to do it and you can help them by saying, here's a great book.

I don't, I can't do that. And I don't want to learn how, because I don't need to, you know, because you can have people who are very good at that and who love doing that and for whom that is a strength and could do that really easily. You can have those people help you to do it and you can help them by saying, here's a great book.

I don't, I can't do that. And I don't want to learn how, because I don't need to, you know, because you can have people who are very good at that and who love doing that and for whom that is a strength and could do that really easily. You can have those people help you to do it and you can help them by saying, here's a great book.

Can you bind it and put a barcode on it and get it into Barnes and Nobles and do all the stuff that I have zero interest in doing?

Can you bind it and put a barcode on it and get it into Barnes and Nobles and do all the stuff that I have zero interest in doing?

Can you bind it and put a barcode on it and get it into Barnes and Nobles and do all the stuff that I have zero interest in doing?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So intense perfectionist pros side are exactly that. They don't care so much about being liked by others, which tends to help them professionally and hurt them personally. But when you don't care so much, when you're not fixated on people liking you and winning a popularity contest, it's very easy for you to be direct. Right?