I was rereading the first draft of the first chapter of my fic and I'm surprised that it's actually??? decent??? LIKE I remember beating myself up over it because I thought it was like so stupid and messy but rereading it now it was actually kinda good??? Honestly I don't know what to feel. This is exactly why I'm the worst critic of my own works XD sometimes I'll find it good but sometimes I'll like rewrite it until I feel like it's "better".
Wish I could forget my fic once I've finish writing it so I can like read it and have a new view of things and actually see the mistakes I did while writing not just blindly insulting my own work.
THANK GOD I learned how to not edit my fic while I write especially since editing it while writing I would get too comfortable with it is going that I wouldn't see my mistakes (because we like get used it?). So what I do now is I write the first draft without thinking too much, leave it for a day or three then just come back and edit it. I don't know about others though but I honestly think this works best for me.
(Lol sorry for this. I just needed to write this down)
But, I'm kinda curious though. How do you guys edit your writing? Or do you just stick with the first draft?