Playing The “Too Many Drafts” Game (in which Everyone is a Winner)

Do you know this game? If you’re a writer, you do.

It’s where you write a draft of a scene or a chapter, but it’s not right, so you put it aside and try again.It’s where you actually finished a manuscript, but it isn’t ready, so you rewrite it. Again. And again. And again.It’s where you have six different endings or three contradicting story-arcs or sixteen alternate ways your hero could get from city A to city Z, and you’ve written most of them, and none of them are quite right.

Any of this so...