There are a lot of writers who reach the end of their project and can’t wait to throw the pen down, but there are also plenty who just don’t know when to stop.
If you’re an inexperienced writer it can be difficult to know when enough is enough. You think you need to hit a specific word limit when what you really need to do is hit the sweet spot of your project.
I recently saw a novel from an author who’d been working on her story for nearly a decade. It was general fiction; girl meets boy, life intervenes, etc. It was the first time she’d shown it to any one (what an honour! It takes a lot of courage to share your words for the first time), and she was incredibly nervous about my assessment.