I'm definitely an obsessive submission email checker. Never have I spent as long on an email as I did on my very first query email.
Tips for us paranoid obsessive types:
When you start a new email usually the first thing you do is put in the recipient, right? Trouble with that is, if that send button gets hit prematurely, by you, someone else, the cat or whoever, that person you are trying to impress is going to get an email you haven't spell checked yet, or added your attachments to, or is only half done. Then you have to email again and try to not look like an idiot as you explain. Solution: leave the recipient field blank until you are definitely ready to send. Then you or your toddler or the cat can hit send all you like, it's going nowhere.
Attachments. So easy to forget to include them after you've typed the mail! Either get into the habit of adding them first, or as soon as you find yourself typing
"I've attached" stop typing and go add the attachments. Then continue. I do this for all emails now, not just submission ones. And Gmail has an add on that sees the word "attachments" in your email and if there are no attachments, pops up with "did you forget to add attachments?" Handy!
Right /derail
Just thought I'd pass those on.