Mastodawn

Have you noticed that regardless of how good a draft looks, if it brews for at least 24 hours, you'll find parts to improve?
And the process has no endpoint. It seems like the trick is to let it brew for some time, but to still mark it as finished after a few iterations.

#OnWriting #AmWriting #ContentArchitecture #draft #editing #writing

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u0421793

@iwritelike I try not to look at it ever again otherwise there’s no ending to this

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I Write Like 23h ago

@u0421793 Exactly! It's exhausting. I'm looking through a few stories I haven't even considered "drafts" anymore, and I feel an urge to rewrite them all.

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u0421793 23h ago

@iwritelike the way I think about this, in writing, music, drawing, painting, etc is to think about what comes next - the next thing I’m supposed to be writing, drawing, musicing etc.

Every moment I spend making the current thing better (or at least no longer substandard) is time I’m not spending getting on with the next thing. If something’s truly bad I’ll fix it later, not now, not during creation. At some point (especially with songs) I’ll close a door in the sand and say ‘creation is finished, now it’s editing’ and won’t make any new stuff, just juggle the existing stuff only. After that, I’ll similarly say it’s finished and never come back to any of the production phase, because it’s finished. Always move forward, get to finished.

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I Write Like 22h ago

@u0421793 This is so good. Thank you for this. I do have the same attitude to reading books (or spending any of my time on anything) -- any book I read is taking the time I could spend on reading another book. So I must be sure it's worth the time. But somehow I never applied it to creating, even though it makes so much sense.
Thank you!