On Revising Writing

I am terribly judgemental of myself. My motto is usually "Live and let live" for everyone else, but not myself. This is reflected, and magnified in my writing process. I can sit and write something, meaningless, an essay for most classes in fifteen minutes. However, when it comes to creative writing, in which I am the Author with all original ideas, I put it off, always, until the last minute. I know that as soon as I sit to write something, I will obsess over it until the job is done. Hemingway said that all there was to writing was to sit at the typewriter and "bleed", but I'm not sure it is or ever will be that simple. Maybe it is, though.
For me, revising is difficult, as it takes time. To revise a piece that I have written, I need to be able to view it with objective, fresh eyes. I'll write something, and if I have the time, wait a few days, or maybe even a week, and view it again. The only problem with this, is if you are too far removed from the piece you have written, it is hard to be in the same mind-set, so you can end up tearing the entire piece apart until it looks nothing like the original piece, and the point that you were striving for in the first place is seemingly gone. So often, I just write, I steam my concious together as best as I can and hope something comes out of it, and if it does, excellent, and if it doesn't, well then, I guess I will just have to write again. There is a balance, for me, to revising, and that is, I often write in a very stream of concious style, however, I am constantly trying to be concise with the words I choose to put on the page. It is a constant balance, and I think one can go crazy trying to analyze what they write, so I try not to. In a way, I believe your words need to be allowed to live in the world you put them in. Therefore, I think too much editing and revising can destroy the initial word you created, and at some point it is worth it to get up and stop banging away at the keyboard. Then, start again until you get it right... And maybe, some of us will never get it right, but we don't, always need to make poetry with words on a page. Some of us are poets at everything we do, and that's good enough. But, if it isn't, then I think we should keep writing, always, until it says everything in the blank page's infinite way.