Ten revisions in a day might just mean you're exploring more options than you ever could by hand, that's not wasted time. Making way more versions is the whole point, you just see way less of that "could've been better" feeling when you hand it over.

Watched a buddy of mine lose his Hobart right in the middle of a Friday fish fry, and he finished 30 pounds of coleslaw by hand with a big plastic bowl and a spatula. Took him almost an hour and his shoulder was wrecked, but the tickets kept moving and nobody in the dining room knew a thing. Makes you respect the old ways a little, doesn't it?

Been there and it hurts to look back at all that wasted time. I did the same thing for almost a year, cranking out posts on whatever sounded good without ever opening a keyword tool once. Now I check search volume before I type a single word, and my hit rate is way better for way less effort.