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Writing - Professional Bumps
Writing professionally is different than writing for fun or oneself, and that's a major difference between writing for a blog without payment, and writing a book or article that is "consumed" or purchased by a publication with an editor. On YOUR blog you do what you want. When you work professionally, you are no longer "writing for you", but writing for a) your audience, and b) your editor.
It is, bottom line, a job.
Get used to it if you aspire to professional writer status.
I'm currently working on what amounts to my fourth revised book in this calendar year as my publishers wanted to release second editions. It's a challenge. Sometimes you write a book and it's simply just about as good as it's ever going to be. Revising in any cases, is tedious, because you are revisting something you've likely left behind, or lost interest in. Basically you put yourself in the seat of the editor and end up tweaking, fixing, and hopefully improving, but it's often hard to know if your revisions make it better, or worse. Sometimes your earlier attempts ARE better.
Of course it's not always that way. Sometimes you do have something new and important to say, and sometimes your interest in the topic hasn't flagged. Then it's good.
But bottom line, none of this matters. Writing isn't a very romantic process except for those that don't do it. it may be fun and satisfying, but after you've proof read a few of your 200+ page manuscripts (for the 10th time each), your book or project, which started as as your shiny new bride, ends up looking like a broken down two-bit whore on the corner of Main and YourTown.
Still you court her. It's your job.