Description: The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
Last time I talked about a couple strategies to free yourself from the terror of screwing up . Mostly by creating fresh drafts where you're free to go completely bonkers while you've still got that original draft as a safe backup.
Maybe it seems like a waste of time to do all that extra writing only to throw some or all of it away? But consider this rather nuanced counterpoint: no, it’s not.
In fact, that's Rule Three: Anything you do to find the best path for your story is not a waste of time or effort.