question for writers: writing something, handing it in, then rewriting it and handing it in again

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does anyone else suffer from this problem? i do work, hand it in, then after emailing it, i agonise over its quality, find errors and things that i deem in need of improvement, then rewrite it and resend it. i then pore over the original, see that it was actually not that bad at all (most of the time), and wonder why i rewrote it and wonder if i made the right judgment. this is ruining my schedule.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

Editors exist for a reason, yo.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

some ed's arent that great though and get rid of all the best bits or mess up the flow.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

But it seems that you're worried you're doing that to youself anyway.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

yeah..... sometimes i think you (or i, rather) just have to leave a piece alone, irrespective of any mistakes or room for improvement, rather than re-read it and agonise over and over like a madman.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

This is the kind of thing I'd be really prone to doing, so when I finish something I force myself to not look at it, not even for typos, until it's printed.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

do you do a lot of work last minute though, lex? cos thats what i seem to find myself doing, which might be why i always rethink it *after* i send it. but then if i examined it too much beforehand, i might totally wreck it from repeated redrafting and rewriting.

i hate writing!

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)

ALL my work seems to be done last minute, which is a horrible habit I must break. Having said that, I think it's easier to then put it aside: if I'm rushing to get an article in like two minutes before the deadline, it's like an automatic reaction to just turn the computer off and collapse after it's been sent.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

i feel for people with this problem, since i do it too.

― splooge (thesplooge), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

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