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[graculus]

Just inspired by my fear of re-reading older stuff, when I went back and re-read a story I'd written about 5 years ago and it wasn't anything like as bad as I worried it would be...

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[lexin.livejournal.com]

When I write, it's often to get an idea 'out there' or, more usually, 'out of my head'. Once that's done, it's done.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

I know that feeling. By the time I've written and re-written and edited and re-edited I'm usually so sick of something that I don't want to look at it again now it's 'done'.

[nakeisha.livejournal.com]

Me too! I'm so glad to hear that I'm not alone in this. By the time I send my story to an editor and then done her edits on it, like you I'm sick of the story, hence the break between reading it again. I think that most writers are like that.