Twook00
Sage
If you are going to be a "professional" at any thing, you have to develop the skill to produce quality work product on your own, and that necessarily entails the skill to recognize whether what you have is a quality product or not.
How is an author to know when he has reached a level where he can objectively evaluate the quality of his work?
I've been struggling with this for a while now. At what point do you know that you are a professional writer capable of producing professional grade work? At what point can you trust yourself over a beta-reader, editor or publisher?
At what point, and this is a big one for me, do you stop seeking validation and just write something from beginning to end without going "Is this crap? Am I wasting my time? Should I get feedback on this scene?"