Editorial Process

For me, one of the more interesting aspects of collaborating on a novel was what I learned up front and personal about how other writers approach the editing process. As I remember it (and remembering that my memory may be faulty), my co-authors on The Golden Key both prefer to turn into their editor a draft that, all else being equal, they would be willing to see published as is. Not that they didn’t ‘want’ to be edited, only that they didn’t want it to be seen by anyone at all until it was as polished and gleaming as they could make it.

I don’t approach the editorial, and “early reader”, process in quite the same way.

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