Like you, I prefer completeness. Yet I strive to balance completeness with brevity by making every word count. And when I look at something I've written in retrospect, I rarely am satisfied that I've achieved either. A wise person once said, it doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be done.
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I was taught something along thelines of that last statement in creative writing classes in college... by a professor who also answered the question "What does it take to become a published author?" with the words "The ability and tenacity to sit down and string together 75,000 words in some semblance of order and then beating people over the head with them till they capitulate and agree to publish them." In his world, talent was of little use, since only 2% of published work is of "literatue quality," anyway...