After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story or a novel, I find that when it's still fresh in my mind I'm either thoroughly sick of its flaws or completely blind to them. Either way, I'm unable to make substantive edits of
“I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.”
“When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.”