If you're trying to break in, yes you want to present your best work. But once you are selling regularly, on option or contract, you have a solid relationship with an editor, and there are good reasons to NOT turn in a perfectly polished ms.
"Good enough" means "developed enough so that we can see if it works and how to move it toward its final form." The more polished the ms, the harder it can be so see deeper flaws, and the more seamless, the harder to take things apart and put them back together backwards and upside down, which is where they rightly belong.
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Date: 2009-07-21 12:25 am (UTC)If you're trying to break in, yes you want to present your best work. But once you are selling regularly, on option or contract, you have a solid relationship with an editor, and there are good reasons to NOT turn in a perfectly polished ms.
"Good enough" means "developed enough so that we can see if it works and how to move it toward its final form." The more polished the ms, the harder it can be so see deeper flaws, and the more seamless, the harder to take things apart and put them back together backwards and upside down, which is where they rightly belong.