: Submitting a partially complete draft? I'm 50,000 words into my first book. Based on my plot and roadmap, that's about 25% of the way into it, so about 200k. I have roughly 110 pages in a

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Do not try to query with an unfinished manuscript.

Dear Query Shark,
I have an incomplete fantasy novel
here's where I stop reading and send a form rejection letter

-- Janet Reid, queryshark.blogspot.co.il/2009/09/134.html Google will find you this advice over and over: an unpublished author should not query an unfinished novel. e.g. 1 2 3 4
An agent or published have no reason to take any risk or spend any effort on a writer who has not yet completed one book. It costs them time, and puts them at risk of you not finishing the book, or finishing the book poorly.
Finish the book. Edit the book. Polish the book. Get the book as perfect as you can, so the moment someone says "OK, let's take a look," they'll have nothing but a marvelous read ahead of them. Then you can start querying.

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It's completely up to you. Most likely, the first few people you contact will turn you down, even with a completed first draft.

This is actually a pretty good idea, because you will not have to wait hardly as long for an agent to read through what you have and tell you their thoughts.

I'd say go for it, and don't be discouraged when it is turned down. If you already have an agent and have published a book with them, they like to see the beginning of the book and read through as you progress to give you tips and ideas.

It's all up to you if you want to do this or not, because either way will work about just as well. I you publish a completed first draft, you will have many more ideas about how the story would progress. If you give them a plot summary of 3/4ths of the rest of the novel, you won't have nearly as many ideas for it as when you've gone through and written it all out. I find that I come up with my best ideas on the go as I write.

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