Re: Writing: better or worse after years on the job?

Subject: Re: Writing: better or worse after years on the job?
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 12:24:35 -0700

"Hart, Rowena" <Hart -at- SelkirkFinancial -dot- com> wrote:

Have you ever been horribly embarrassed to read something you wrote
years ago?


Yes, frequently. But, then, I've been frequently embarrassed by something I wrote moments ago, in the sense that I've wanted to tinker with it.

That's what deadlines are for - to keep this sort of obsessive perfectionism from running completely out of control :-)

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