cornerofmadness

Burn out is a constant problem. I generally go through that first draft -- which is really two in one -- then another draft in which I try to catch everything I missed the first time. Then I put the manuscript aside for at least a month, and go back for a cold reading in which I usually catch problems I didn't see beforet. During that month I'll have a couple of other people read it, and *they* usually find some problems I missed. So that leads to another draft, then I go through a series of searches for specific words or problem areas -- words ending in "ly", for instance, or the word "has", in the hopes of making the story more active.

Then there's one last read through, if I can stomach it, before I send it off to a publisher. So, yeah -- burnout, big danger.