You are not alone. Paul Graham has been writing essays for a long time, and he is revising and rewriting a lot too. Here you can see him write one of his essays as an edit replay.
The drafts of the essay I published today. This history is unusually messy. There’s a gap while I went to California to meet the current YC batch. Then while I was there I heard the talk that made me write “Founder Mode.” Plus I started over twice, most recently 4 days ago.
You are not alone. Paul Graham has been writing essays for a long time, and he is revising and rewriting a lot too. Here you can see him write one of his essays as an edit replay.
Also: “only one sentence in the final version is the same in the first draft.”
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