"I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying "flee at once - all is discovered." They all left town immediately."
Even if you plan on sending your manuscript or article to an editor for review prior to publishing, (which is highly recommended), you should spend a fair amount of time editing your own work. By taking time to edit it, it will become polished and look professional, reflecting the quality of you and your services. Here are some tips to help you become a great self editor and obtain positive writing results.
Well-known writers who have suffered from writer's block include George Gissing, Samuel Coleridge, Ralph Ellison, Joseph Mitchell and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Writers who overcame writer's block and published new work after a hiatus of decades include Harold Brodkey, whose novel The Runaway Soul appeared some 30 years after it was first projected, and Henry Roth, whose first novel, Call It Sleep, was published in 1934; his second, Mercy Of A Rude Stream, did not appear until 1994.