On writing and editing...

So, I've just finished bleeding upon two more chapters of my XHTML/CSS manuscript, putting me at the half-way mark. I've come to discover one thing about this ms: I turned in a piece of crap as a first draft. I left stuff out, the grammar is poor in places, typos rule other places. It was late and I rushed it to turn it in vaguely on time. Boy was that a mistake. I'm still holding my ground that the content and style of the book is perfect but I know what I should have been saying. I can see why the early reviewers hated it so much because everything I was trying to accomplish got completely lost in the total crapiness of the ms.

So, here's a nickel's worth of advice for those of you considering writing a book. Don't turn it in until it's ready. (Especially if the publisher hasn't paid you any money yet.) Whatever you turn in will still need to be edited but don't turn in something you've not even read once yourself.