Steven Pressfield

You can only fix one thing in one draft.

So I usually will think of...

And I start a book, maybe 13, 14, 15 drafts.

The last seven or eight will be really small, you know, really slight changes.

But I won't look back on the day's work.

So I figure on the next draft, then I'll read it fresh and it'll look a million times much more clear sense.

Is this any good?

Because if you do it when it's too fresh, you start to drive yourself crazy.

You start to, you know, perfectionism, another form of resistance comes in.

So, yeah, that's my process.

I know a lot of other people don't do it that way, but that's the way I do it.

When the day is done.

The bell rings.

The office is closed.

That's it.

I turn off my mind and just let the muse take care of it overnight.

And I try not to worry about it at all.

All I ask myself, I know I'm getting into the weeds here, really, Andrew.

At the end of a day's session, all I ask myself is, did I put in the time and did I work as hard as I can?

Quality will take care of itself later in the next draft, the next draft after that.