Patrice Walker
1 min readApr 21, 2023

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Your titles pull me in every time. I'm initially thinking, "he couldn't possibly mean that, could he?" And so I must read on to see where he's going with this. "Ahhh, now I get it." And your advise always makes sense.

As a recovering perfectionist, my challenge is to not edit while I'm writing the first draft which, for me, can be a painful process. "Stop editing! Just write," I have to keep telling myself. "Get the first draft done, for cryin' out loud!" And once it is, I'm in my element - editing and revising for boucoup cycles until the piece is as perfect as I can make it. And it's typical of me to go back and edit (mostly to catch a punctuation error or a misspelled word) after it's published. I haven't quite learned how to work the headline magic you're so adept at, but I'm working on it.

As usual, great advice Godfather!

(P.S. This comment went through multiple editing cycles.)

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Patrice Walker
Patrice Walker

Written by Patrice Walker

I'm a Boomer who loves to write, crochet, explore metaphysics, & walk the beaches of O'ahu. Paywall-free links to my stories at https://ko-fi.com/patricewalker

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