Calming Inner Critic Response

To be completely honest, after reading Goodwin's Piece all I could think about was the fact that I had never written  anything while ignoring my "inner critic" and the "grammar police" mentioned in class. Having said that, I am going to try to do this in writing this piece. Also, I never was inclined to write my own thoughts before this class versus information from research or other topics, so this should be interesting for me. After reading this piece, I am excited to try something new, and something that actually makes sense in a writing method. I like the idea of letting my thoughts flow out of my mind without being censored or disrupted by the inner critic mentioned in Goodwin's piece. One part of the article that really caught my attention and opened my mind was when she brought up loving our inner critic, how it provides an excuse for procrastination and imperfection. The whole first part of her writing, she kept on nagging at the inner critic, almost degrading it and the ancestral writers whom we compare our writing to. I'm paraphrasing here, but at one point she goes on to say that Shakespeare and all those other divine writers are dead, asking what they have done so great lately--  Nothing! Then, the writer brings up how much we secretly love our inner critic, who allows us to know our writing will never reach perfection or feel complete. Then it hit me, this lady actually knows what she's talking about! We can tussle and overcome our inner critic in letting our thoughts flow on paper, while still understanding it's existence. By understanding its existence, to me, it gives us, ordinary writers, peace of mind when creating our own literary work, knowing we will never think our work is perfect or complete. And in all honesty, I think that is the beauty of it.