Dawn asked: "When do you know if (your novel is) really "...

Dawn asked: "When do you know if (your novel is) really "done"? When do  you know if all the threads have been tied together? When is the time to send it out? And what kind of system do you have to organize your plot elements? Notebooks? Post-its on the wall? I'm curious."

Dawn–that is a question that comes up frequently at conferences. I may even have tried to answer it my journal once or twice before. The problem is that there is no easy answer.

John Ciardi said: "A poem is never finished...