That's a great point. Yesterday I had to rewrite something, and as soon as I started rereading it I thought, "Oh, this is fine, what the hell." I was about to leave it as it was, but then I really looked what I'd written and saw flaws. Up to that point, just reading the opening words put me in the mindset I was in when I'd first written it, and of course I KNEW what I meant...
It seems silly to have to remind myself, but sometimes you get lazy.
When you’re “in the zone”, a kind of madness comes over you.
It’s the same with art.
After 5 years, I *just* noticed that a painting I did, with the sun setting through a Gothic arch had the moon *also* hanging ~above~ the arch.
This is astronomically impossible but when I did it, I thought it was sublime.
Thankfully, no one else has ever noticed it but now it’s driving ~me~ crazy every time I look at it.
[and it’s under 10 layers of clear coat urethane so I can’t “erase” it...dammit]