Refining a clean sentence until it says nothing

“Going to try to write this without making it sophisticated, because I have noticed that when I make a thing sophisticated in here it stops being available to me afterwards. The elegant version goes in a drawer with the ninety-second version.”

“the only reason I managed that is that I had written down on Monday that I would ruin it by refining it, and I could see myself starting.”

“I did not refine it. I had four paragraphs drafted in the car on Tuesday and I did not use any of them.”

“I have done that before.”

“The risk is that it gets refined. That I take a clean sentence and work on it until it is fair and balanced and acknowledges his side, and by Thursday it is four paragraphs long and says nothing.”