Found this piece on Medium and thought it would be a good topic for the authoring or screenwriting lounge.
Don’t over-complicate the writing process. There are a ton of details that make zero difference to the reader.
Here is the most highlighted paragraph from this post: "And yet, we writers often spend hours painting the backs of precisely such walls. We endlessly fret about details the reader will never notice — let alone care about. We agonize over which exact word to use in a sentence as if there was one perfect word. We repeatedly check the word count as if the exact length of our manuscript would make any difference to the reader. We wonder whether we’re using too many em-dashes, exclamation points, or semicolons. We try to make our paragraphs look neat. We waste a whole lot of time on minutiae. And it’s all pretty much pointless."
https://medium.com/writing-cooperative/dont-waste-your-time-on-details-r...
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The “reader”, as this guys calls it, isn’t any reader, but a professional who pays attention to a lot of details a regular reader wouldn’t even notice, for instance if the passive voice is used too often, or if the characters seem to all talk lin the same way. I know, because I’m one of those readers (an editor) and so are agents who are suppose to sign you and sell you stuff to other readers who will sell it to another type of readers (the public).
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Awesome find, Debbie Elicksen, thanks for sharing!