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In case anyone's curious, I'm making slow but steady progress on my novel. I haven't got very far, just 11,000 words (8 scenes) completed in first draft, but the remaining 60-odd scenes are planned and sketched out. So I know where I'm going (a first for me!), but it's taking me a long time to get there. I'm only managing between 500 and 1000 words a day on the average day because I'm obsessively editing and polishing what I've already written. I'm pretty sure this is a mistake and I should just forge ahead and worry about the quality in the second draft, but I can't seem to resist the temptation to keep going back and giving each supposedly complete scene another little tweak...and then another...and then another. I fear this constant tweaking and polishing in the creation stage will make the story stale far quicker for me than if I just ploughed ahead and broke fresh ground every day. I'm only 11,000 words in and I'm already having a huge crisis of confidence; it doesn't bode well, does it? I need to find a way to turn off my inner perfectionist. |