Let's face it, not everyone can afford to hire an editor to read through their work before it's published, especially broke ass indie authors like myself. On that note, I tend to take editing from a marketing stand point. At one time I wrote an info product on choosing Amazon products that convert. On that note, I should probably drag that book from the sales page and go ahead and post it on Amazon as well since it's already finished.
Anyways, one rule to writing info products is to not sweat the small stuff. This basically means to give it one good edit and then let it go. Why only one? Because people have a tendency of getting caught on imperfections. Almost undoubtedly, if you edit your work more than once, you will change something every single time that you edit. In essence, even if it is good enough for most of the general public, it will never be perfect to you. So, the simple rule is . . . edit once and then let it go.
Of course, this probably shouldn't really apply to fiction literature or other literature for entertainment purposes. Most people who read a lot know the rules of English, and there are at least a handful of them that can spot a mistake a mile away. It's a lot easier to spot mistakes in literature if you're not the one writing it.
Anyways, enough of that topic. What this leads to is the fact that I finished editing Under Construction today. . . which means that it's done, finite. Hopefully tomorrow I will have time to design a cover for it and then it will be off to the Amazon cyber printing press. lol
Starting tomorrow my time will be a lot more limited, so it's highly likely that it will take me at least another month to write the third book in the series. At any rate, Under Construction should get published before the end of this week. Here's to hoping that everything goes well. I already have the cover elements picked out, I just need to put them all together.
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