Bad: suddenly realizing there’s a logic error in the manuscript I just sent out.
Worse: not remembering where or what the error was.
Honestly, at this stage of writing I just hope the agent and editor will find it. Because I’m going quietly nuts trying to figure it out.
I shouldn’t, because I have done this with every single art and writing project I’ve finished and released into the world for the last two decades. Whether the project has huge mistakes or not. I cringe at the flaws I know about but didn’t fix. I obsess over the ones I didn’t find. I startle art critics and editors with my joy and gratitude when they find my gaffes. Because that proves I wasn’t imagining things.
Do sane people do this, too?
I’m not ENTIRELY sure that I qualify as sane, but I do know that I do it, too. Take that as you will.
Oh, good. Not that I would wish it on anyone else, but I don’t feel quite as alone. Nothing like the lurching realization of ‘Oh, hey, there’s a *huge* mistake in that career-changing book you just sent out…but you can’t remember it!’