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I suggest you keep going. What you're doing right now isn't editing; it's nervous grooming. You want what you have on the page to be "perfect" so much that it's stopping you from writing anything e...
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#4: Attribution notice removed
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System
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2019-12-13T12:00:32Z (about 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T04:50:47Z (about 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/20020 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
I suggest you keep going. What you're doing right now isn't editing; it's nervous grooming. You want what you have on the page to be "perfect" so much that it's stopping you from writing anything else. Write the rest of the book. Put it aside for a few weeks so you can come back to it with fresh eyes. _Then_ do an editing pass. If you want to re-read what you wrote in your last session just to get your head back into the space of your story, and you fix a few bitty things along the way, that's fine, but don't hack away wholesale if you only have a few chapters done. Move forward.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2015-12-10T13:09:32Z (about 9 years ago)
Original score: 5