My 1st drafts are always weak on descriptive detail. Editing helps. “The man shot” becomes “The bald man with a scar across his left eye, whose father had never loved him even after countless years of entrepreneurial effort and financial success, fired his nickel-plated pistol.”
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I definitely need to convince my brain of this. I tell it, and it says OH NOES BUT THIS IS PERFECT!!1!11!!!1! Sometimes it’s not a very sensible brain.
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A lot of authors have this problem. I beat it by telling myself every book will have 4 or 5 drafts with multiple rounds of extensive self editing and I don’t allow myself to make more than minor tweaks as I write the first draft. Trust the process. Document changes to make.
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