Your writing could always be better. It’s an unfortunate reality of this job: No matter how long you do it or how much you learn, everything you write has room for tweaking to get a little closer to elusive perfection. You could go cross-eyed re-reading a piece before...
I believe the age-old advice that writing is rewriting. And if publication is the goal, then you must rewrite. Handing over work to a reader for critique, especially to a book editor, brings about a certain level of anxiety. I say anxiety, because no matter how...