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(Almost) Everything is a Draft · The Daily Writer

• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Rider Podcast, where we bring you tips and inspiration each day to help you build habits for writing success.
• 0:14
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• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: We're doing a short series here on the podcast on perspectives that go against conventional wisdom.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're just not joining us, I encourage you to go back and catch the last few entries in this series.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today's perspective is this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Almost everything is a draft.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: Here's what I mean when I say that.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of the reasons that we get creatively hung up is that we want everything that we do to be perfect.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're afraid of judgment and we're intimidated by what people will think.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we get stuck in this endless cycle of always starting things but never finishing and publishing them because of this idea that everything we create has to be the final version of that thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I believe basically the opposite.
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  SPEAKER_00: I believe that almost everything that you create is just a draft.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a work in progress of a more final version later on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Books are really the only thing, in my opinion, that should exist in some type of quote unquote final form because it's impossible to go back and change print books once they've already been printed.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_00: But honestly, even those are not necessarily final because you can always update the e-book and audiobook versions, or you can just release a new edition of a book.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, tons of writers release the second or third or fourth or fifth edition of their book or a revised version or updated or whatever the whatever terminology they want to use.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: So really, even print books never truly exist in any kind of final form because you can always uh do a newer version of those.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_00: I consider almost everything that I create to be kind of like a draft.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: Podcast episodes, newsletters, email, social media posts, teaching sessions in my daily writer club.
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  SPEAKER_00: I work to make all those as good as I can when I put them out there, but I will change and update that material for other formats.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_00: And the book to me is the format that needs to have the highest level of editing and excellence.
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  SPEAKER_00: So don't get hung up on all the things that you're creating.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just do your best to reach for excellence, then hit publish and move on because you can always create a newer version of something.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in our digital world, very few things are completely permanent.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's today's question: Do you get hung up on trying to be a perfectionist?
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  SPEAKER_00: Be honest.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, before we wrap up, I want to let you know that today's episode is brought to you by the Daily Writer Club.
• 2:37
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• 2:43
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• 3:00
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• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for listening, and I'll see you tomorrow.