Sometimes, during revisions/copy-edits/final-pass pages, I’ll read a sentence or a phrase or...

Sometimes, during revisions/copy-edits/final-pass pages, I’ll read a sentence or a phrase or an idea that I originally wrote over a year ago and think, "Wow, that is actually kind of really good."

That thought is almost always followed immediatelyby one of two subsequent thoughts:

"Must have been a fluke."

or

"How come I can’t write like that anymore? I’ve lost whatever it was that made me able to do this…"

Fighting against these subsequent dismissive thoughts is, most days...