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Does anyone have a solution to Post Narcissism?
I do this, and still wind up only regretting what I wrote after someone's pointed out a huge flaw with it. (Oddly, people tell me not to stress about saying things just right. Since I still screw up on a semi-frequent basis, worrying about it apparently isn't that helpful. )
I do this. I don't regard it as an issue, however; I'm looking for faults, but as a result my writing has steadily improved over the past few years; it's part of the reason I no longer write using Old English grammar.
What exactly is the problem here?
Time loss due to excessive interest in reading something just because it is one's own creation, to the point where one doesn't think it is good anymore.
Stop writing?
That would only be a good solution if I was writing for my own delight, and angry about the delight when it actually happened. Most people write so that other people read what they wrote (I think). This is how I write academic or magazine articles, what I did with my book, and what happens to video content I post anywhere. But doesn't happen with posts and comments, those somehow require me to go back and read them, sometimes up to 10 times. Cyan and Komponisto seemed to have the same problem.