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On Redoing Things
The process of cultivating taste is a lot like the writing and editing process. Here’s George Saunders on the revision process. “The way I revise is: I read my own text and imagine a little meter in my head, with “P” on one side (“Positive”) and “N” on the other (“Negative”)... This involves making thousands of what I’ve come to think of as “micro-
In short, your first draft is to extract novel ideas out of your brain. Your second draft is to rewrite those ideas so they resonate.