Reaching perfection in anything is not easy. I don’t care what it is, it always seems elusive to me. It doesn’t matter if it is washing your car and getting every speck of dirt off of it or getting 100% on a college final. So, when is perfection not achievable? When do you stop? How about when a surgeon is working on your body? When do you want him or her to stop? When editing a movie, when does the editing stop? Who’s washed windows and never left a streak? When do you stop trying to make something better?
For me, the answer is when the changes don’t make much difference. The incremental improvements don’t match the effort it takes to improve the product. You’ve made something as good as you can. Could someone else make it better? In many cases, yes. I know with writing, there are many people out there who are much better writers than me and they will always be better. What takes me ten tries, they can do in one. But I took the time and energy to do it ten times. So I’ve make my new book, Deceptive Truth as good as I can, but I know it’s not perfect. Is it better than my first book, Scent of Danger? It’s different. Better is in the eyes of the reader.
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