Nicolas Cole says obsessively swapping adjectives and rephrasing sentences wastes time and blocks progress. Train yourself to notice when you're stuck in that loop, make a choice, and move on instead of lingering on minor word choices.
I really try and catch myself whenever I'm playing a game of swapping adjectives or resaying things. If you ever find yourself sitting there and you're like, "Oh, should I say great or amazing or terrific?" That's the signal to stop. Because whenever you're tweaking adjectives or you're resaying the same thing in slightly different ways, you have to remember that that is fundamentally incremental. I try and have trained my brain to recognize when I do that and go, "Oh, we're focused on the wrong thing. It doesn't matter. Make a decision, move on."
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