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Editor involvement in early stages of series books/sequels

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Megan:
Been wondering about this as I work on my first sequel--those of you who've written sequels or series under contract, how early did you share a draft with your editor?  Did you get feedback from critique partners first and do a fair bit of revising, or did you get start working with your editor with a pretty rough draft?  Any thoughts on this, what works best and why?

thunderchikin:
My editor got a beta draft of my sequel, which is the first draft with one pass for glaring errors and missing scenes and includes such incredible writing as [insert chase scene here].  She prefers to work on the story early to help shape the plot before it becomes too difficult to change, although I always feel guilty sending in such loose work.

elissacruz:
 :nothing

I've been working on a sequel with my agent, but I've wondered what would happen when an editor gets involved, so I'm curious to see what others say about this.

ello:
 
--- Quote from: thunderchikin on January 14, 2011, 09:06 PM ---My editor got a beta draft of my sequel, which is the first draft with one pass for glaring errors and missing scenes and includes such incredible writing as [insert chase scene here].  She prefers to work on the story early to help shape the plot before it becomes too difficult to change, although I always feel guilty sending in such loose work.

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Oh wow, my editor offered to take a look at a draft in that early a stage (for my sequel) but I said I'd prefer to get her a more substantive draft as I'd be too embarrassed to give her something so raw. She said it was up to me, but now you have me wondering if I should take her up on it.

Jaclyn Dolamore:
The draft I sent my editor of Magic Under Stone had me totally nervous. I know it has some loose ends, a too-abrupt ending, some stuff she is going to say is too adult, some boring patches, etc... I still think it's pretty (word censored) good, though. I mean, in a definite diamond-in-the-rough way. Still, I've been angsting about it, because I'm not sure exactly what is the expectation...it was sold as a three chapter + synopsis proposal and I turned in the whole thing seven months later (with Sea and Sky rewrites included in the seven months!), so I wrote it fast, and I think it was definitely good for the speed with which I wrote it. But I'm still used to not showing things to agents and editors until they're as good as I can make it...and I know it's definitely not as good as I could make it, with time.

I feel quite a bit better after reading this thread...

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