To Self-Publish, or Not to Self-Publish

I recently completed a fifth draft of my work in progress, Hemingway's Girl, and I'm preparing my assignments for the Breakout Novel Intensive Workshop in September. After preparing the synopsis, my goals, and scene breakdowns, I'm finally at a place where I know just about every word of my manuscript just in time to have it critiqued, torn apart, and reassembled.

I actually relish this process, and can't wait to see the direction the workshop takes my manuscript. I wonder if there will be a m...