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by justindz 4089 days ago
I am the same way. I found it surprising. I get so much positive feedback from the editing process that I have actually developed a routine of editing as I draft. Although it improves the quality of my draft, it takes ages. For poetry, it worked well. For novels, I think I'll need to break the habit.
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Though for what it's worth, I've seen a lot of professional authors that warn about that as another kind of trap that beginners fall into. That is, paying too much attention to the revision process, at the expense of producing actual finished works.