: Re: Fixing fundamental flaws of structure and composition under deadline The Backstory: I have a project due in the next few days and noticed about halfway through the editing, rewriting and revision

@Martha805

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Nearly every piece of writing (especially those written under deadline!) can be made better in some way or another, often significantly so, given enough time. We are all "capable of much better work" when we have more time than we have! But we don't have more time than we have; if we did, we'd have had that amount of time instead! Therefore, assuming we haven't been slacking, whatever we have written when the deadline comes is, by definition, the best work we can do. If we could have done better, we would have.

And if you could have noticed the flaws in your initial approach sooner, you would changed the approach you were taking in time to make the work much stronger. But you could not.

Assuming your client/editor/professor/whoever has seen drafts of the piece and is satisfied with the direction you originally proposed, my suggestion would be to inform them that you have finished the piece, but that while you were finishing it you thought of another approach that might be superior to the one you originally proposed. Then the ball's in their court.

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