When Your Internal Editor Won’t Go Away

When Your Internal Editor Won’t Go Away

I don’t have much trouble with my Internal Editor—let’s call her Edith—when I’m writing. She normally sits in the corner and lets me flounder as I try to create the day’s work. But let me pick up a book, whether it’s written by a Big Name Author, midlist,  or fledgling, she jumps out of her chair and insists on interrupting my read.

We writers, you see, can’t seem to read like “ordinary people.” Edith is constantly pointing out the way the author has put t...