I know it’s culturally taboo and everything, but honestly, sometimes I read back over something I wrote a while ago and I just think: jesus _christ_ that is so good. That is amazingly good. I wish I’d written that, and I actually did, and I kind of want to both present AND attend a seminar on how damned good that is.
Then I think the usual things like I started too late, and I’ve peaked, and I’ll never do it again, and so on, so I do have the normal ego-deflation and self-doubt too, just FYI.