
First Draft - Peter Ho Davies (Returns)
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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The Too Subtle Side of the Sweet Spot
Sometimes i think there's real value in saying, well, i've undershot my target. What would it be like if i wrote a heavy handed draught? What if i went overboard? And the advantage of that is that between those two draghts, the too subtle one and the heavy handed one, you've, i think, little range finding. You now that the place you want, the goldilock space, the sweet spot, lies between that range id think it's easier to help find it if you've undershot it and then overshot it. For the calebration purposes, little easier to find that spot, rather than just to continually creep up on it
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