I think I had two pages something that was completely unrelated
and so the feedback was like "delete these pages." Which is like - you never want to delete anything because
It took me forever to write that. I worked hard on that thing, you know?
But getting that feedback and having to step back and say "you know, they're right"
like "this isn't what I'm trying to do."
It was like - this is really dramatic, but like a burden was released from my body.
This thing was hanging on to me that wasn't important
and so having that criteria and having someone else say "look, this is the criteria,"
"this isn't meeting it, let it go." Like ... junk this thing.
It was painful but I think it's probably the most serious transformation that's ever happened
to my writing. It like literally went from an 8-page document to a 4-page document
In like an hour. And it was better because of that.