A good writer gains some distance from what he has felt and thus if you ask him, if this is him, he will smile. This is because he can’t quite remember what he has written. That is the old him, a shadow of himself.
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Yes, some emotional distance from writing is important. I found this here quite interesting:
https://www.quora.com/How-do-writers-gain-distance-from-their-writing