It probably is. If you wrestle with excessive self-editing, piracetam or thc might help you get lots of words down that you can groom at your sober leisure, telling for a friend
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I am exactly the same. if I start writing something I spend ages agonising over the first sentence and I never just move on to the next paragraph if I'm not happy with the one I'm on yet
It took me six minutes to write this tweet (or I would have seen yours and rewritten mine)https://twitter.com/systemergent/status/1050756186516025346?s=19 …
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I also think that I take so long with the first draft because I'm no good at editing after the fact though. once I've written something I kind of internalise it so that it feels very difficult to change even if I want to. so pre-editing feels like a way to dodge that problem
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or maybe I'm just bad at editing my own words precisely because I don't do it enough
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yeah me too, I do editing as a job but when it comes to my own words I just feel too close to them to objectively assess what needs to go
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If you can treat your writing as "from you" and your editing (of your own words) as "for an audience" maybe?
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ah I never have any idea what "the audience" wants in any circumstances
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Well...you can look at it more exploitatively as "what do I want from the audience"
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I want them to read my words and enjoy them I suppose, but I'm not sure how that helps
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