Sleeping is just as important as being awake and active. The same goes for diving into your manuscript versus stepping away from it. When you spend too much time looking at your work over and over again (read the last page on Friday and then start from the beginning on Saturday with no break, for example) it’s a lot easier to go “blind” to a lot of the problems within the piece that you are capable of catching. This is similar to being in a room with a foul odor. When you first walk in, the stink practically smacks you in the face. But if you have to sit in that room without leaving it for a while, your body will start to acclimate to the smell and it becomes easier to ignore. 

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