Tidbit from conferences I've attended - Agents have said that they sometimes get very well-polished first couple of chapters with a query letter but when they ask for a partial or full, the rest of the writing is a mess. So, we need to make sure our whole book is ready to go.
And now to my dilemma -
My challenge today is to select 5,000 words for my last workshop of the OWC program. Do I resubmit the first couple of chapters to get more feedback on it after making some small changes to it or do I submit a portion later in the book that hasn't been read as often and has larger chunks that I've added to it?
Benefits to submitting the early stuff - I would have another read of the first two chapters which would help with submissions to agents.
Problems with it - I've had it read many times before. Each time it gets better but what about the other portions?
Benefits to submitting the later stuff - Although it has also been read, there are some new portions that I added based on feedback I received. If an agent wants to read more material, it would be good to have more polished portions throughout the book.
Problems with it - If I can't get an agent past the beginning portion of the book, the rest won't matter anyway.
Off to go decide now...
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