People ask me how I can only have like five or six drafts before I call it done with my short stories. These concerns often come from my friends who have dozens of drafts and never feel like they’re done with anything.
I tell all these people the same thing. Once you get to the point where your readers are nitpicking about small things and you are stressing over individual words in your editing process, you’re done. The second you find yourself agonizing over commas your piece probably isn’t going to get substantially better from there. You’re done. Pack it up. Start submitting it places. Congrats, you made a thing.
“But what if I could make it better?”
Clearly you’re not. You’re looking at a computer monitor through a microscope, my friend. You can’t play the fun free flash games for kids when you’re only looking at one pixel at a time.