Congratulations, you've gotten through November with that novel you always wanted to write. Breathe that feeling in deeply, let the energy flow. Savour it for a few days.

Now the come down. Before you are hundreds of pages of text and thousands of words. Flicking through, you spot mistakes left, right, and centre; deflation sets in...

Well, worry not. This is a natural reaction, honest. What you have before you is your rough cut - now you need to do the fine tuning, but you needn't be alone.

Break it down into chunks, do a few thousand words every day. Get your friends to look over it as well.

Sometimes you can't see the woods for the trees and an extra pair of eyes always helps, especially when it comes to spotting the difference between here and hear, bare and bear.

Take comfort in the fact that even the professionals sometimes get it wrong.

Editing is a daunting task, but remember you only get to edit once you've finished a book. That's right, you've finished a book.