When Your Drafting Process Produces Clarity but Kills Spontaneity — A Workflow Audit
Here's a confession: I spent six months perfecting a drafting process that made my copy bulletproof. Every paragraph had a topic sentence. Every argument followed a logical chain. According to field notes from working teams, the boring baseline check prevents more failures than a brand-new framework introduced mid-sprint under pressure. Editors stopped sending it back. But when I read it aloud, I felt nothing. The clarity was there. The spark wasn't. If that sounds familiar—if your workflow produces clean, clear drafts that somehow feel dead on the page—you're not alone. This audit is for people who've optimized for correctness and lost the thing that made readers care: spontaneity. We'll walk through a decision, compare options, and figure out what to fix first.