The Unmentionable Second Draft

Anyone who has written for more than their own pleasure knows very well the second draft. In my opinion never again will any work bleeds like it does during its second draft. During your second draft your piece that was once so precious you couldn't have imagined ripping it to shreds becomes something more akin to a one night stands in the morning; it's never as pretty and as well written as you remember it. During the time you were creating the works first draft, you were on a creative high. The juices were flowing and your soul was out there for the whole world to see.
This is not at all the state you are in during your second draft. During your second draft your inner editor has begun to rear its ugly head and every sentence looks like it could be better written and the commas put in completely different places. Barbato and Furlich discuss all of this in chapter 9 of their book a long with many other things. They give amazing advice on when to use five cent words and when to use five dollar words, they discuss the parallel of letting twenty-two people give advice when only two count, and remind you to give yourself a break before going back and re-hacking at your masterpiece. All of this may seem like common knowledge but while reading a ton of it I thought, "why didn't I think of that?" It allowed me to take a more analytical stance when it came to looking at my baby and having to cut it down to size.