An editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an editor.
I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.
You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you, and we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.
The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes.