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How proximity blinds writers to their own work

I wrote a novel that took me two years and now I am editing it and I hate every single page but I cannot tell if it is actually bad or if I have just read it too many times

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intimacy with one's creation can erode the capacity for objective assessment, leaving doubt where clarity once lived.

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