how regrets are made

The first step in my particular writing process is over-thinking. I will consider a subject, debating the finer points in my head, for so long that others will be finished typing before I reach for the keyboard. Next is typing the intended message, which includes many false starts, plenty of sentence deletion, and almost always some debate over whether I want to use "affect" or "effect" at some point. Then I do a quick bit of proofreading, decide what is wrong with what I have written (it is never in question that something must be wrong). The final step is to look at the clock, decide I don't want to waste any more time on the subject, and save the final version.