I used to be obsessed with perfecting my draft before it was even finished. I’d spend hours rewriting the same paragraphs, tweaking sentences, reorganising sections… yet my draft never actually moved closer to submission 😔 It felt like progress, but really I was stuck polishing instead of producing. Once I stopped doing this, I was finally able to get full draft versions finished in a fraction of the time - clearer structure, stronger arguments, and way less stress. So, what was slowing me down

I used to be obsessed with perfecting my draft before it was even finished. I’d spend hours rewriting the same paragraphs, tweaking sentences, reorganising sections… yet my draft never actually moved closer to submission 😔 It felt like progress, but really I was stuck polishing instead of producing. Once I stopped doing this, I was finally able to get full draft versions finished in a fraction of the time - clearer structure, stronger arguments, and way less stress. So, what was slowing me down