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Originally Posted by Julie Steiner
I feel like a hypocrite for saying this during a week in which I haven't commented much on others' poems...but having to articulate what I think works (or doesn't) in others' poems has done more to improve my craft than receiving others' comments on my own work.
Really.
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This is well put.
Because your work isn't on the operating table and instead you're the doctor, slowly and fitfully learning how avoid transposing the arteries, perforating a bowel, or a leaving an instrument inside the body next time.
It's so much easier to see someone else's heart than your own.