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I'm currently reading the proofs for a book of mine that is going to be re-released (which one? Well, we'll leave that announcement for later...) I haven't read the book since I last looked at the galleys more than ten years ago, so it's almost like reading someone else's work, and it's nice to have a sense that maybe I actually can write... :-) The stuff I'm working on now or have worked on recently is always overlaid with the vision I had for it, with all the drafts and all the stuff I intended for it to say that may or may not actually be in the text -- that makes it difficult to be entirely objective about it.
How about you, other writers? Do you feel as if you have difficulty objectively assessing your own work?
How about you, other writers? Do you feel as if you have difficulty objectively assessing your own work?
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Always. It's too much a jumble of conception and various stages of execution; I can't even open a file of a published novel and not start fiddling with sentences almost as a matter of course.
Page proofs always flatten me, as the last stage of a novel, and I generally can't read the novel objectively four at least two years after those.