writing your own reviews

On the last few projects I have begun to write down what I think my agent, editor, or critics will have to say in advance. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if I had a gut feeling about what was wrong with a project and was ignoring it, or if I would simply be blindsided by new criticisms I had never suspected before.

Guess what?

It turns out that overwhelming, the criticisms are things that I have written down over the course of working on the project. Yes, there are occasi