It's done. I can't think of anything else to do to the manuscript. I've punched up the humour. I've smoothed out the transitions. I've eliminated the repetition. I've found typos. I believe that I've taken the manuscript as far as I can and now it's time to say see you later. I'm sending it to my editor today for his final (hopefully) notes on it. With a short article, I'm pretty sure I can catch all my mistakes but with a novel, I'm certain something was missed, which is why I'm grateful for extra eyes.
My thinking is that if I do as much as I can to fix up the draft, it means the less clutter my editor has to clean up, which means he'll be better able to catch the mistakes that I couldn't see. In the end, the draft gets stronger and that's all that matters. Off it goes.
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