Perfecting a story is like working you way to cut down a tree.
At frist you start with the outer layer in the tree. Which is like getting the puncuation right.
Then you dig and cut a little deeper. you look at the story line.
Then you get a little bit deeper and then you find you are growing much more confident in you work and being able to cut down the tree.
But what you dont realise it that the stump is the hardest part. The stump is the where the purest confidence glows that is the time when you are just about getting published.
You might get eevrything sorted out along with the blurb, front cover, aknoledgements and dedications. But what is the hardest is having the heart to get it published.
You might want to be an author so much. But you need to consider that you are doing it for the right reasons.
There is not really a lot of money that comes in to it, but then again you the pride that someone around the world knows your name.
On the plus side, you will have the knoledge that you have done something some people think is completely crazy and virtually impossible.
But my biggest advantage, it is to know that someone somewhere will be enjoying the same thing as me and to know that i have reachone one of my goals in life. I dont care about the money, yeah you need it, but writing should be a hobby, not a job. I enjoy it that way.
Spending my free time reviling the trust about a mystery and uncovering the trust in my own heart. Or producing a monster inside of something and changing it to something amazing and new. 
They are my reasins, befre you publish anything think of the reasons and think about is they are the right reasons.
Take control of your own life, whether you are sixty five or twenty five, who cares, if it's what you want then you will know.
Thank you.
J.A.M