Editing Confessions

On Tuesday, I approached the subject of editing too much.  One of you admitted to former over-editing, another to under-editing.  Still another is friends with writers who edit overboard.

I think every writer has editing tendencies we don't speak much about.  We talk about editing, sure, but not the little things.  We dare not breathe a word about our quirks, hatreds or dirty little shames.  So... let's go!

Confessions:

I sometimes don't edit poems I write... at all!  It's rare, very, but some poems come out whole.  Even a prizewinning one.

The more I dislike a piece, or myself, the more I edit my current works into the ground. If a published piece is back on my desk, I'll rip it to shreds in my disdain and utter contempt for the drivel I spew.

I edit my fiction meticulously.  While a rare poem makes its way to me gorgeous, stories never do.  I edit even the smallest pieces repeatedly.

Once an editor starts making suggestions, my first instinct is to cave and change everything he/she wants me to.  Not so they publish me, but because they know better than me.  Of course, I do stand up for my writing if it's something that would destroy it. But not before my brief idiocy.

I neither love nor hate editing, it depends on the project.

I often edit poems as I write them so the true originals almost never exist.  And I don't keep consecutive drafts, either.  What's done is done!

My first edits are almost all done by hand, not computer.
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Okay, those are some of my editing confessions.  What are yours?