new criticism

I am becoming increasingly critical towards my own writing-skills. Around the turn of the Millenium, I was usually rather confident with my own work. Actually to such a degree that when others were of another opinion regarding the quality of my work, I rather trusted my own perception. No longer so. Definitely not. However I cannot continue to spend as much time working on the same thing apparently not getting anywhere. Writing is re-writing, as if. Ok, probably is, but it doesn't always seem very efficient.