I feel like this is said enough times, but I wish someone had told me that the first draft doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to exist. I've gotten better about it now, but I'm still such a perfectionist. I feel like if I had this advice when I first started, I would have finished more projects, or that I would at least feel better about my writing
Right now I'm struggling to balance my passion project with my academic projects. I want to work on both but I'm finding it difficult to work on either. I'm having a period of what I would call being "empty" and I don't have the motivation right now to do things to make me "full"