Where are your results published? What are your qualifications? Are you simply regurgitating half-understood bits you heard while watching Animal Planet?
Where are your results published? What are your qualifications? Are you simply regurgitating half-understood bits you heard while watching Animal Planet?
If your complex system lasts more than four hours, publish your results immediately.
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Editing, especially for clarity and pacing, is essential. Rewriting because you've lost faith in your work is a death trap. Finish your story. When it's finished, and you've finished editing, don't rewrite it! You'll learn as you go, but only if you actually go. Sitting and rewriting the same story because you are unsure about it isn't helpful and is actually detrimental.
It's a solid rule, and I agree with it.