As it is, editing is more of a question of "when will I get sick of writing this thing", because frankly you can edit anything until literally the end of days, always finding something to change and tweak, but at that point you've probably been at it for so long that your text has gone through a whole evolutionary process to fit its ecological niche.
Yeah, agreed. It's possible to just over-polish and keep thinking about minute edits I wish I could make—even for fics that I posted years ago and know I should just let them BE, other than glaring typos—but it's one of the reasons I tend to work better with self-imposed deadlines. I try to give myself "oh yeah, first draft should be done by the end of the month" or "finish this pass of revisions by next week" and meet those goals, which a) keeps me to a schedule, but also b) takes away some of that over-polishing because sometimes...a fic just needs to go out so I can focus on the next thing I want to write. There's a point of diminishing returns from working on the same thing over and over.
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Yeah, agreed. It's possible to just over-polish and keep thinking about minute edits I wish I could make—even for fics that I posted years ago and know I should just let them BE, other than glaring typos—but it's one of the reasons I tend to work better with self-imposed deadlines. I try to give myself "oh yeah, first draft should be done by the end of the month" or "finish this pass of revisions by next week" and meet those goals, which a) keeps me to a schedule, but also b) takes away some of that over-polishing because sometimes...a fic just needs to go out so I can focus on the next thing I want to write. There's a point of diminishing returns from working on the same thing over and over.