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[Princess Leanne]

I said it depends. It depends on whether I am interested in what I am doing or not. If I'm not I'll just do what is necessary but if I'm interested I'll be doing my best. At school it also depends, when I start doing something I must do it well but since I'm lazy I sometimes don't xD I don't know which grade I would get in the american system though ( 15/20 where I live ). As for games I like to be involved in them , I like having pokemons several levels ahead to and in Fire Emblem I hardly let any unit die only when it's someone I know I won't use.

[Lux Aeterna]

How often do you write stories over 10,000 words? That's like 30 pages.

10,000 words is approximately 20 pages in my font. And, I finished one story that ended up being about 35,000 words (69 pages). The other one I'm writing is about 20,000 words so far.

I don't write >10,000 word pieces often. Usually one-chapter works (one-shots or helpful things) that are about 5,000 words on average.

[Kay]

I used to be a perfectionist, but I think now I've found an acceptable middle ground between pushing myself too hard and being totally sloppy.

[Thor Odinson]

I'm pretty meticulous when it comes to art and I get really annoyed if my proportions are off and will spend forever looking at it/getting friends who know their shit to help me look at it to find any mistakes I need to correct. And I see even small anatomical mistakes fairly easily too, so if it's wrong it'll bother me forever until it's fixed.


Everywhere else I'm kinda sloppy, or else I'd rarely get below 100 in math. Seriously, my mistakes always ends up being missing negative signs.

Edited by Fat Bunny, 07 July 2012 - 06:45 PM.

[bottlegnomes]

10,000 words is approximately 20 pages in my font. And, I finished one story that ended up being about 35,000 words (69 pages). The other one I'm writing is about 20,000 words so far.

I don't write >10,000 word pieces often. Usually one-chapter works (one-shots or helpful things) that are about 5,000 words on average.

Ah. The way you said it, it seemed like it was common.

Everywhere else I'm kinda sloppy, or else I'd rarely get below 100 in math. Seriously, my mistakes always ends up being missing negative signs.

I know what you mean. Fuck math's shit.

[Thor Odinson]

Oh, I love math, I just use up all my meticulousness in art.

I'm a rather lazy person.

[Phoenix Wright]

Not in the slightest. Like Raven, it mostly depends how much I enjoy an activity; in the case of education, I'm a C student, and I'm content with that.

This, mostly.

Later this fall, when I move into my dorm/uni, in no way will I be happy with something less than a B+. I didn't really care at all in high school, save a few of my awesome classes.

Edited by Phoenix Wright, 08 July 2012 - 09:42 PM.

[SeverIan]

I used to be a perfectionist, but I think now I've found an acceptable middle ground between pushing myself too hard and being totally sloppy.

Yes, being totally sloppy IS an acceptable middle ground between perfection and being dead. Congratulations: not everyone is me.

[Rehab]

I'm a perfectionist until I either burn out, or get distracted by just about anything. Arr ADHD

[SeverIan]

I'm a perfectionist until I either burn out, or get distracted by just about anything. Arr ADHD

Anything, like a thread about being a perfectionist?

[Rehab]

May-B.H.D.

[Aquaman]

Depends.

I'm lazy and have other things to do, with my time other than clean.

[Othin]

Also, Othin, if you say you're a perfectionist, that means you don't stop working at something until it's perfect. Now if you have to put in additional effort, beyond just what's necessary to complete it, that means it's not perfect on your first attempt. Since your first attempt isn't perfect that means you wouldn't be perfect. Just my two cents on that idea.

Okay, I see what you're saying.

I wouldn't agree, though. For me, perfection is something to seek. Past imperfections are something to learn from, but they're otherwise irrelevant.

It also implies that a "first attempt" had "failed" rather than simply being incomplete, which I would say is the wrong perspective and wrong understanding.

[FrozenCat]

I voted for depends.
I could care less about most things (for example, when I had to take Art when I was younger, I took many creative liberties), but when I bake or cook something it's serious business.

[marcus90]

Perfectionist? No way. Nothing is perfect. So, some defect has to be there, so you know your limits and you can eventually try to correct them as much as you can.