Revisions--Resubmit?

Suck it up. I thought about doing the very same thing.
Honest.
After my agent signed me and was rereading for the 2nd time I couldn't stop twitching and tweaking. My agent said stop already!
If it's tweaking it will not be the difference between rejection and acceptance.
If and when she makes THE call or if she wants to discuss revisions LISTEN TO HER. She may have her own ideas of what she thinks is the next step.
And if she rejects?
You might have to revisit your manuscript with her suggestions in mind.
At this point you really should sit on your hands or start another project.
JMHO

Not a good idea to resubmit at this point unless you've made a major overhaul and even then it's kind of dicey. The only time a resubmit can work is right in the beginning. It's like the five second rule when you drop something on the floor. Within a day after sending you can send again saying you inadvertently sent the previous draft. Even then, it might mark you as a novice or a nutcase or both.

As I might have mentioned elsewhere, several times, I currently have four different drafts of my novel under three different titles (one with an entirely different pov) with four different agents.

You gotta love it when nice, sweet Orion says suck it up. Seriously, LMFAO!

However, she and popmuze are both right. If it is a seriously significant revisions that really, really changes everything, switch. But just a new tweaking, well, just hope sh still sees that diamond in the rough.

Good Luck!!

Maprilynne

I get this same feeling...constantly! I think I've finished, I send out a bunch of queries and get requests, send them out, then I read the ms again, and there's a typo on every frigging page! Like four hundred typos that I missed before! And then I read it again, and find that, in taking out four hundred typos, I've put in three hundred more. So now what do I do? Do I bother the agent and look like I've queried him on an unfinished piece (which it is, for as long as I have it, I'll tinker with it) or do I let it slide?

Well, I've discovered that a full read by an agent will reveal startling problems of a magnitude I hadn't dreamed of. And nothing to do with typos or clumsy sentences here and there. Agents are reading at an entirely different level. What they care about is characterization, plot development, high level stuff. If it's just typos, let it go, even if it kills you.

I agree - just try to relax and let it go. They're looking at it on a higher content level, totally.

*Hug* Good Luck!!!!!

Pisarz said:

I guess this crisis of doubt is because this is my first novel

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Not to shake up your belief system or anything, but I've had a dozen books published. The first thing I do when I get my author copy of my latest book is to open up to a page at random and--bam--there's a typo.

I've published three novels with Houghton Mifflin and I definitely wish I could do two of them over (make that three).

Hey I thought my manuscript was nearly perfect when my agent and I got through with it and it got submitted to editors.
After the publisher bought it and I got it back for editorial changes and I found out I left out WHOLE WORDS!
DUH!
I even discovered one place I used your for you're!
Yikes!
And you know what?
They didn't care. It's the story. The premise. And the writing.
But it is funny isn't it when you send something out - all of a sudden you get twitchy - and want to mess with it again - just when you thought you were sick of it!