When to Let Your Book Go

How to stop revising, start submitting, and move on to the next writing project

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There comes a time in the writing of every book when you have to say, “I’m finished.”

This time may be after five revisions or fifteen. It may be after one year or five or six years. But you can’t hold onto it forever.

I once heard a writer on a panel boast, “I work on a short story for ten years, sometimes mo…