I finally have my almost finished manuscript, but the editing stage has gone on for so long I am starting to question why I even bothered to write my book. is it really any good? Will anybody want to read it? And, if I start sending it out to publishers and agents, will it come back to me so fast it's like there was a boomerang attached?
All sorts of worries go through my head and the thought of them makes me doubt my work and then I start to think - do I need to change what I have written? Should I keep this bit?
One of the best pieces of advice I read came from a very successful author who said that there is a danger of making changes to your manuscript not because they are better, but because they are different. I have that on a post-it note and every time I consider making changes I stop and ask myself 'is this going to make my book better?' If the answer is no, then I keep it as it is.
Tales and thoughts from the coal face of writing and life from Scottish crime writer Jennifer Lee Thomson.
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