We are both dyslexic. We used to be perfectionists and we were scared of mistakes. A word had to be checked over and over before we dared paint it onto a canvas, and that ate both the time and the excitement.

Then we started painting because it is fun. When you paint in that mood you do not stop to wonder whether a letter is in the wrong place. The mistakes stayed on the canvas, and we let them stay.

Now they are part of the painting, the same way the drips and the fingerprints are. Nothing has to be perfect, not even art.

If writing is hard, write anyway. With the mistakes, rather than not at all.