[indigotwilight]

Thanks for the view points. I can understand where you both come from there too. When I pick up the vampire novel I'd written a few years ago, it looks utter tripe now... Things stick out at me which other people may, or may not, notice. I loved the story and plot to it, and that (in part) inspired the idea of combining it with another.

From what I can tell, even a rejection is an experience to learn from. One wonders what may have happened if I chose to submit those subsequent novels (say the one about the talking squirrels) ... Had one been published, I may not have written K.T. as I know it now, and all my characters would have experienced something different.
It see those early novels as part of the learning curve, and they will all play a part in the series to come.

I just sometimes wonder if one can ever be wholly satisfied with their work, even after publication. Can a writer be guilty of 'over editing'? Is it possible to rewrite so much that one never gets round to actually sending off the manuscript in the first place?
Certainly, having someone cast a fresh eye on the stories is a great benefit. My girlfriend helps out at lot here. But we stil have differences of opinion. I'll see a paragraph I can write better; a sentence or two that I think should be deleted, and she'll say it's all OK - nothing to worry about. And sometimes I wonder if she is just saying that, even though she swears she is not.
At times, as I write each chapter in turn, Phoe will stumble on something that does not quite make sense, and that, to me, is worth while.


Twi