Tuesday, September 16, 2008

When to let go

I've been working on this picture book for...hmmm...let's see...oh, yeah---years! It started as a little poem for my son's pre-k classroom door. Then I added more of a middle. Then later, after an editor critique, a beginning and ending came about. My poor critique group has seen it so many times in so many phases of its life. I know the final revisions I need to make before I can send it out into the world and for some reason I hesitate on making them.

Do any of you have a manuscript like this? I guess it's like having your baby walk for the first time. You want it but you don't.