Are you sweating the small stuff as you write, rather than just writing?
You're a writer. And a writer writes. Do you find yourself backing up and self editing as you go? Why turn off the word faucet when it's flowing strong?​
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How do you punctuate a sentence within a sentence? What are split infinitives and do they really matter? Are your paragraph and chapter transitions smooth? Does your main character have green eyes throughout the story?
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So you sit there, perhaps struggling to understand what the Chicago Manual of Style has to say about such things, meanwhile, you've lost your groove and you can never write those words quite the same way again.
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​–Joan Wendland, Figgy Newton . . . There BE Dragons
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