The Insanity...Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhh

I think I've just about lost my mind. I can't stop editing my own book. As I continue to write, I also read books in the same genre from best-selling authors. I like to see how they present their scenes, do they curse, what kind of language and descriptive phrases do they use, how do they tell their story. There's a definite pattern to how they decide how much of the protagonist's background they introduce and when; as well as those about other characters and locations, how they set up each scene in a chapter, etc. But the more I read, the more I keep going back to my own writing and try to emulate their style. It obviously works - otherwise they wouldn't be best-selling authors, but I really need to find a stopping point with my own writing.

I can see the little publishing wardens tracking me down and dragging me off to the writer's insane asylum...I know they must have one of those out there somewhere.

I realize that I need to go back and edit my own writing before I hand it out to others - and go back again, and again, and again...(you get the picture)...until an agent and/or publisher like what they see and want to take me on as a client; but I think I'm definitely crossing the editing line. I'm barely on chapter seven! I MUST BE STOPPED! Someone make the little editing voices in my head go away! At least until I finish the book and can go back and look at it as a whole...maybe they make a pill for this?