The Business Of Writing

Why Second Drafts Are So Agonizing

And how to better navigate them

Nick Wolny
6 min readFeb 18, 2021

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Writers often bemoan blank page syndrome as the source of all their problems. But I think we have it twisted around. A lack of ideas isn’t what derails us; it’s the process of expanding on, tightening, and polishing those ideas that presents a challenge.

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