Another edit

With the book signing tomorrow, I wanted to finish the current edit on my next novel today - and I did. So I will have something else to talk about! It's not done-done, as I'm still finding typos and minor issues - things I want to change; so one or two passes will be in order before the speed read. But it's close, and I'm happy with it.

Being happy with your work - being ABLE to be happy with your work - is important; something that is often downplayed for the Puritan work ethic. Hard work is essential, endless editing is inevitable; but at some point, we have to let them go...if we are happy with the work.

I have five others in the edit cue, written but needing work; one of them continues to give me fits. No matter how much I work on it, I am not happy with it. I make changes, then don't like the changes. I go back to the original, then don't like either, so I make more changes. That one may take a while. In the meantime, I will work on it, and the others, until I am happy with each one. Then and only then will I relax and let it go.