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Originally Posted by crich70
I agree. We have a personal blind spot with something we have written ourselves. That's one reason why the advice to lay a project aside for a few weeks at least is given. We are more likely to have a balanced perspective on a piece after some distance has been achieved.
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Yes, laying it aside helps gain perspective on what the story is worth. I find the extra distance (in time) means that I have less emotional investment in the writing and that makes it easier to discard or rewrite the parts that aren't working. But I haven't found that it helps my proof reading all that much (except for the lousy pieces that I don't care about anyway ... not that I ever write any of those
). It's quite amazing the glaring errors I've managed to miss, over and over (and over and over and ...) again, even when something has been put aside for months.