When Is The End a Go? Oct #IWSG Blog Hop
For whatever reason, I have this uncanny ability to bump into these types of posts well after the fact, and although I'm too late to the party, I have left instructions (below) for you to start this hop at its real beginning and follow through from there. IWSG (Insecure Writers Support Group) has a monthly Blog Hop which occurs on the first Wednesday of each month. This month, the question posed is: When do you know your story is ready? Never. Even when I feel 98% sure it is a go, I suffer heart palpitations, anxiety, and self-doubt as I upload the formatted material online. An indicator that I'm through messing around and ready to launch is a gut feeling, but the meter never reaches 100% regardless of the stage at which I feel like it is time to put the baby to bed. I work with two incredible BETA readers, and their helpful and candid advice has made me feel lots better about myself as a writer and about my writing, but I am not yet to the point of being able...