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I definitely am a perfectionist when it comes to writing, but usually I do my editing before I publish something online. I will often save it, leave to do something else for awhile, and then come back with fresh eyes and scan for errors - poor sentence structure, tenses, spelling, etc. Your brain overlooks errors, even some that are blatantly obvious, because it knows what was meant to be conveyed through the writing. This makes it easy to skim over things too quickly.

So yes. I probably re-edit everything I write at least once. I went through and edited this post, in fact. From one semi-OCD writer to another, I hope this is consolatory.

Hello Laura,

i have just started hubpages three weeks ago, and not editing my published hubs regularly because i study first then after publish my hubs, if i found some there is something can improve my published hubs then surely i will move forward and edit my hubs.

I think Relache answered it the best. Sometimes making changes to titles (keywords) can do little help in traffic too.

I don't think I spend a lot of time re-editing a Hub, but in the three years I've been making Hubs, I know that each one probably been edited at least once. Some of the content capsules that exist now weren't even here at the start. A few have been edited more than that. When I learn something that will really improve the function or performance of my Hubs, I definitely go back and do some retouching. If some new news or info surfaces that is relevant to keeping the content the most useful to the reader, I'll edit for that.

If I find a flagrant error with syntax or punctuation, I will edit. If I reread my hub and a sentence sounds wrong, I will edit. I'd like to think my hub was well written before I ever published it and it sounds like, with your perfectionism, that's probably the case. What I do know is that I read a ton of hubs that look as if they were never edited in the first place. I don't return to that hubber because I think they are essentially lazy and just trying to churn hubs. If you care about writing, it's natural to be a bit picky about what you put out there for the public to read. It's a matter of pride.