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How to know when revision becomes destruction

Every time I finish a poem I immediately see everything wrong with it and start revising but the revisions always make it worse

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Perfectionist editing impulses destroy the organic completeness of creative work.

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“Where Are You with Poetry — the oldest creative form?”

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