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Insight for me: too much editing sucks soul.

Editing should be done once you have a GOOD draft. Not ANY draft.

I'm guilty myself - I've internalized too many lessons about the power of editing and took it as a call to edit and persevere with whatever I just wrote.

Whereas much sensible is just to start from the scratch.

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Love this. There’s a Balkan saying about this: “You can’t make a pie out of shit”.

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I think it was Stephen King who said something similar, that "you can't turn t*rds into gold."

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