: Re: Should I start work on a sequel before I have sold my book? I finished the 1st draft of my book, and have put it in the freezer(as I asked about in this question). I was planning to start

Heard Dr. Jerry Pournelle talk once about how Robert Heinlein taught him and Larry Niven to write. One of the things he told them to to do was to throw away the first quarter of their manuscript and start the book where actual stuff started happening.

That is to say, if you can't sell the first book, that doesn't necessarily mean you can't sell the second. Maybe the first book was the part you had to throw away! Or at least, perhaps the salient bits can be condensed into the first chapter or a prologue.

The biggest issue in my mind is what happens if a publisher accepts the first book, but demands changes that basically make the sequel obsolete, such that you would have to start over again.

Load Full (0)

: How do I check if an ISSN is properly registered at issn.org? How do I check if an ISSN is properly registered with issn.org? I found a tip on wikipedia to try link like "http://www.worldcat.org/ISSN/1021-9749"

@Vandalay250

Load Full 2 Comments

: Least possible editing effort if a text is for multiple media? I want to write a text with some basic styles and images. I plan to use it on a blog, maybe later in a wiki. And there should

@Vandalay250

Load Full 4 Comments

: First person with co-authors? I'm rewriting a technical book that will list two authors: the original author and me. Much of the text has been changed and there are some informal parts where

@Vandalay250

Load Full 2 Comments

: Quoting Films in an essay using MLA I am trying to quote a film (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) in an MLA format essay, and I am not quite sure how to go about it. I have figured out

: Re: Should I start work on a sequel before I have sold my book? I finished the 1st draft of my book, and have put it in the freezer(as I asked about in this question). I was planning to start

More posts by @Vandalay250

: How do I check if an ISSN is properly registered at issn.org? How do I check if an ISSN is properly registered with issn.org? I found a tip on wikipedia to try link like "http://www.worldcat.org/ISSN/1021-9749"

: Least possible editing effort if a text is for multiple media? I want to write a text with some basic styles and images. I plan to use it on a blog, maybe later in a wiki. And there should

: First person with co-authors? I'm rewriting a technical book that will list two authors: the original author and me. Much of the text has been changed and there are some informal parts where

: Quoting Films in an essay using MLA I am trying to quote a film (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) in an MLA format essay, and I am not quite sure how to go about it. I have figured out

Login to post a comment!

0 Comments

Back to top