Falling short of the expectation you have for yourself
I really dislike it when I draft something, send it out, then have it come back completely changed. This annoys me because either the way I was doing it was not good enough or the way that I did it was not what they wanted. In either case, I feel like I should know better and I get frustrated when I don’t know better the first time.
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i've felt that way before, when i let other people read a draft and i get all these comments and changes and i get defensive. but now i realize that it is the most helpful thing ever. i actually WANT someone to make red marks all over my paper, because if they just tell me in a wishy-washy-don't-want-to-offend way without really showing, then i just end up not making many big changes. and for some reason i have it in my head that all magazine editors do that to their writers, but that image may be just from a movie. in the end, that's what a draft is...i still get a little defensive but i know they're just trying to help. :)
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