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When revision becomes creative quicksand

I have been working on the same 2000-word story for eight months and cannot decide if I am perfecting it or ruining it

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The inability to discern between improvement and destruction traps work in perpetual revision.

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Worth thinking about

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