Having been there more than once I agree that any time you start calling yourself names and beating yourself up about your writing, it is a good time to stop!
Give it a few decades. You know you've been working on editing one of your own novels for reissue for too long when you feel like you've been in a knock-down-drag-out fight with a two-decades-younger version of yourself . . . and aren't entirely sure you won.
(I have to go through the pageproofs for the Baen Guardians reissues, and it's a combination of a lot of fun and some close-to-physical agony. Thank God I've only got one more omnibus to do; I can find other things to do that are more fun, and I wouldn't mind skipping the agony.)
That said, you know the old saw about what's necessary to make a great painting, I suppose?
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I've used a lot of "Show!" and "Huh?" in this editing pass.
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(I have to go through the pageproofs for the Baen Guardians reissues, and it's a combination of a lot of fun and some close-to-physical agony. Thank God I've only got one more omnibus to do; I can find other things to do that are more fun, and I wouldn't mind skipping the agony.)
That said, you know the old saw about what's necessary to make a great painting, I suppose?
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Nah.
2. Somebody to shoot him when it's actually finished.