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Self-criticism of writing
Does anyone else suffer from being self-critical about their writing ability? My article writing is good enough that I get published a lot, but despite constantly trying to improve my writing quality and style I always feel it`s not as good as it should be.
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We can always improve, but remind yourself, it's good enough to be published, now.
I try to leave my article for a couple of days after doing the main edit on paper because, like you say, a bit of distance from it helps to spot silly mistakes. If it`s published in a magazine that I get a copy of then I usually read the other articles in it to see if I can learn from the writing of others. But it`s definitely a bit of imposter syndrome in my case.
And if you did the same for other people's work I am sure you would also find much that could be improved!