When enough is enough

I just "finished" ( I use the term loosely ) a short story a couple of days ago. Its an odd thing really to determine when a story is "done". For instance, I worked very hard on this one short story for about three months when time permitted. But, when I was done, I still had some grammatical errors in the story. The content I felt was solid and the plot I thought was good, but I still couldn't quite get the grammer down 'perfect'.

So I was faced with a moment of choice... grind through it once more? Send it off and hope the editing had been enough? In the end, I opted for the later. A mistake? Maybe. But my great uncle told me once a long long time ago: "Sometimes you have to decide... are you going to actually fish? or keep cutting bait until you think you've got enough?" I'm just hoping I didn't start fishing with too little bait.

I sometimes wonder if you reach a point with fiction writing where the grammatical choices are 'opinion'. Is that the point when 'enough is enough'? Or maybe its when the story just 'feels' right, like a sculptor working at a piece of clay. Naturally, if the errors are glaring, yes keep the story and polish it like there is no tomorrow. But, what about when you get down to 'well I *could* write it like that, but I could write that same passage like this...'? Hey, I dunno. I think I go with the 'does the story feel and flow like I want it to?' concept... with maybe a dose of 'I so cannot read this one more time!' thrown in for fun!