Getting Bogged Down in Revision

Is it Perfectionism or a Process Failure?

Anne Janzer
From the Library
Published in
4 min readFeb 1, 2022

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Jeep stuck in the mud in a desert
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Just one more pass through this thing, then I’ll post it. Maybe tomorrow. It’s not good enough yet.

If you embrace the “write a messy first draft” mantra (and you should!), then you rely on revision and self-editing to make that draft presentable.

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Anne Janzer
From the Library

Author, Writing Coach, Unapologetic Nonfiction Geek. Writing about Writing Itself (very meta). AnneJanzer.com