We are the worst judges of our own work.
The author of a work is biased in so many ways it boggles the mind. Whether one is burdened with chronic overconfidence or chronic self-doubt, any self-assessment will be skewed.
Because it is impossible for the author to see the story with fresh eyes, the opportunities for distortion are abundant. The end product is the final version of multiple versions. It becomes easy to mentally merge the multiple versions of what we wrote into a single, coherent version that is only what we think we are reading and not actually what we wrote. Continue reading “Does This Story Make Me Look Fat?”