Ten Experts habits to improve...hmm

Well I'm usually quite good at scheduling my time when writing a paper. I don't try and push it all into one day if I'm not ready to. As a writer and hopeful author I'm starting to learn that sometimes you need to finish a draft and then leave it for a few days or however much time you have. It's so true that when you leave something that you've written alone for a few days and come back then you can see it in a clearer light. I've seen this personally. I recently just finished writing the prologue to a story I'm trying to work on. When I was in the process of writing it then it all flowed perfectly, I just kept going and it felt like it all fit just right. I dropped it and came back a few week later to reread it and start revising it. Wow. It's a good thing I had that time period to leave it alone. When I reread it then I could just see so much more clearly where it needed work. It felt like it had been endless when I was writing it and when I reread it it didn't seem all that long at all, being about 15 pages.

Something I need to work on is reducing my expectations. I'm just going to relate this whole thing to the stories I write, since it's the most relatable. When I start working on something I don't want to put it down on paper unless I have it perfectly sorted in my mind how it will come out. I don't like writing down something that I know doesn't sound write or flow right even if that is all I have. It seems to permanent for some reason. I like to do the best I possibly can at the time being because I know that when I go back and change things there will be a lot to change even though at the time it felt like my best writing. It's scary to think how many changes it would need if it weren't my best writing at the time. I don't like to print of a hard copy and tear the whole thing apart. I like to just tweak things here and there on the screen. Once I have it down it can be hard for me to want to change a lot, except the parts that are screaming for a rewrite. Most of it though I just like to not touch because I like to get everything down right the first time.