When first learning to write on my own, I spent so much time second-guessing my options, trying to work and rework and rework individual sentences. Eventually, I realized this was a mess and slowing me down, and by then I felt more confident about writing a sentence well enough and going on. On reviewing, I'd get tangled and uncertain, but I could spend long periods forgetting all that entirely, simply drafting.
The trouble now became twofold: more to edit, less cause to recast any piece. I've always been a dabbler and petty tweaker. Some wiser voice in me knows I should step back and make bigger changes: cut paragraphs, find entirely new routes to the single thought in a sentence, zero in on my thesis overall and the sense of each paragraph, rearrange my outline's face with a crowbar, and so on. Instead, I nickel and dime my words, hoping for a flow that's already inherent in the drafting.
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When first learning to write on my own, I spent so much time second-guessing my options, trying to work and rework and rework individual sentences. Eventually, I realized this was a mess and slowing me down, and by then I felt more confident about writing a sentence well enough and going on. On reviewing, I'd get tangled and uncertain, but I could spend long periods forgetting all that entirely, simply drafting.
The trouble now became twofold: more to edit, less cause to recast entirely. I've always been a dabbler and petty tweaker. Some wiser voice in me knows I should step back and make bigger changes: cut paragraphs, find entirely new routes to the single thought in a sentence, zero in on my thesis overall and the sense of each paragraph, rearrange my outline's face with a crowbar, and so on. Instead, I nickel and dime my words, hoping for a flow that's already inherent in the drafting.
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When first learning to write on my own, I spent so much time second-guessing my options, trying to work and rework and rework individual sentences. Eventually, I realized this was a mess and slowing me down, and by then I felt more confident about writing a sentence well enough and going on. On reviewing, I'd get tangled and uncertain, but I could spend long periods forgetting all that entirely, simply drafting.
The trouble now became twofold: more to edit, less reason to recast entirely. I've always been a dabbler and petty tweaker when editing. Some wiser inclination in me knows I should step back and make bigger changes: cut paragraphs, find entirely new ways to approach the single thought in a sentence, zero in on my thesis overall and the sense of each paragraph, rearrange heavily, and so on. Instead, I nickel and dime my words, hoping for a flow that's already inherent in the drafting.
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When first learning to write on my own, I spent so much time second-guessing my options, trying to work and rework and rework individual sentences. Eventually I realized this was a mess and slowing me down, and by then I felt more confident about writing a sentence well enough and going on. On reviewing, I'd get tangled and uncertain, but I could spend long periods forgetting all that entirely, simply drafting.
The trouble now became
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When first learning to write on my own, I spent so much time second-guessing my options, trying to work and rework and rework individual sentences. Eventually I realized this was a mess and slowing me down, and by then I felt more confident about writing a sentence well enough and going on. On reviewing, I'd get tangled and uncertain, but I could spend long periods forgetting all that entirely, simply drafting. The trouble now became
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When first learning to write on my own, I spent so much time second-guessing my options, trying to work and rework and rework individual sentences.
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When first learning to write on my own, I spent inordinate time second-guessing my options, trying to work and rework and rework the individual sentence.
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When first learning to write on my own, I spent so much time second-guessing my options, trying to work and rework and rework the individual sentence.
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When first learning to write on my own, I spent an inordinate time second-guessing my options, trying to work and rework and rework the individual sentence.
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I spent an inordinate amount of time, when I was first learning to write on my own, second-guessing my options, trying to work and rework and rework an individual sentence.
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I spent an inordinate amount of time when I was first learning to write on my own second-guessing my options, trying to work and rework and rework an individual sentence.
