[Vodstok]

Is anyone else here afflicted with the crippling "Perfect first draft"syndrome?

This is a godawful tendancy to recognize story errors AS you are writing, and getting so consumed with goign back and fixing them in the first draft, that you dont even finish it?

Now I know that the proper thing to do is write, then go back and make corrections. is this "syndrome" the result of a lazy mind? like i could somehow get it right the first time and never have to do a rewrite? I also know that is a great way to give your carreer a massive gunshot wound to the head before it even gets going.

Personally, i think this is worse than writer's block. Its not even the inability to get a cohesive idea, its having the idea, through completeion, but holding yourself back unnecesarily by getting mucked up in useless details.

I bring this up becaus ei am writing a story right now where i am gettingout only half of what i want to say, but i am gettingout a framework of what i want, puttingin to paper (so to speak) and actually WRITING, and now i am doing the proper thing and moving forward, and it is DRIVING ME NUTS!!!!

It's like asking someone with OCD not to line up the toothpicks on the table....