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I think it would help if I were a little less proud.

People give me ideas for revisions, but I always think “Oh, they don’t know what I’m going for. They don’t understand.” I always end up taking their advice, or if it’s an assignment, I lose points because of something they told me to fix.



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Dreamer7787 - The hoper of far-flung hopes, and the dreamer of improbable dreams.

I have/had the same issue. Taking a creative writing workshop during undergrad helped me get over that a little. Granted sometimes taking advice on things to change is still difficult, but all books have to go through editors who are going to recommend changes as well.

Sometimes we’re so close to the work that we can’t see the issue(s). We live and breathe it while writing it and it makes sense to us. Sometimes an outside perspective is needed to see the things that you, as the author, can’t. GL! :)


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