| The word perfect is one of the most shrewdest | | | | The reader is our intended audience and |
| terms in the dictionary. It can only be matched by | | | | sometimes editors don't recognize this. They are |
| saint and holy, which are two extremely powerful | | | | so disconnected with the reader's experience, that |
| words. The difference between the perfect story | | | | they sometimes edit parts and quirks that should |
| and the perfect person is that one is created by | | | | be left in. It's amazing how influential a character's |
| God and the other by man. God is perfect, man is | | | | blinking eye can be or a home's attic window can |
| the exact opposite. Yet, man has the ability to | | | | be. If the eye is a result of a stab wound from |
| create a story that becomes illustrious in its on | | | | the antagonist back in high school, it just makes |
| Egyptian pyramid type of way. Every writer | | | | more sense why the childhood friend kills him in |
| should keep this in mind when he or she is tryng | | | | the end. That same attic window, which the editor |
| to craft a manuscript. | | | | thought was unimportant becomes a prime spot |
| As professional writer, we all strive to be perfect. | | | | where the murder actually happened. This |
| We double-check our manuscripts a million and | | | | element of a story just makes the manuscript |
| one times, and read every book about writing | | | | more compelling and dynamic. |
| novels that we can. This is at least true for the | | | | As a writer, never sell your own manuscript short. |
| successful writers. The one thing most of us miss | | | | It's okay to compromise some of it, but don't |
| out on when crafting that perfect story is the | | | | alter it beyond recognition. It not only changes the |
| imperfections that make it priceless. Some of the | | | | face of your story, but could change the face of |
| small quirks a writer has that irritates a publisher, | | | | your career. |
| can at the same time thrill our readers. | | | | |