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It sounds like you put a lot of work and thought into every word of your first draft so when it's 'born' it's as perfect as a new baby, and untouchable. I find this strange, especially because you don't outline. I'm an outliner but my first drafts are 'just getting the idea down' with the thought that 'I'll make it right later'. So my drafts are infinitely changeable, I could spend forever editing. It's the same with painting (I paint cats); the pictures are never really finished, there's always something I see from the corner of my eye that I could just touch up a bit.
Your view inhibits editing, mine means I'm never satisfied with a work. There must be a happy medium.
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