You know that saying “You can’t see the forest for the trees”? It applies to writing. Sometimes—well, in my case, maybe a lot of times—we writers think we know how to do something and it turns out that we just thought we knew what we were doing. LOL

Case in point: I rewrote a scene from one of my WIPs and cut it down considerably. It was the Heroine/Hero’s first meeting so I bobbed and weaved from her POV to his and back again. Hey, that’s supposed to be a romance genre technique, right? I successfully stayed in each character’s POV, but with my tunnel vision I missed the big picture until it was pointed out by another writer.

My scene had a “ping-pong match” feel to it because I wasn’t staying in one character’s POV long enough. A paragraph for her, two for him, three for her, another one for him. I wasn’t letting the poor reader have enough time with either character to get to know him/her. Which will translate to the reader not being able to bond, identify with, and care about those characters. My bad.

The lesson in this is to periodically step outside your own view of your work and welcome feedback from other writers.