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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/25722
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## Background

Woohoo! The time has come, my _first book of a trilogy_ is one chapter away from finishing. I've done a little editing as I go, clearing up the bad chapters, but haven't properly gone through the whole thing or anything.

Firstly, I saw [this question](https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/3513/write-to-the-finish-or-edit-as-you-go), an interesting question, but I'm thinking about not one book... a trilogy. Or a series of any length, really.

So, I was wondering whether I should write the entire series first then edit or write one book, edit that to perfection, then the second one, edit that to perfection, so on and so on. I'm beginning to lean towards writing the entire series, because I'll have the entire thing to work with, but I'm really on the fence right now. I just can't decide, this is an impossibly tricky dilemma.

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## Question

> Should I write my books and edit them one by one. For example, I write the first book, perfect it, write the second book, perfect it, so on and so forth. Or, should I write all the books (without editing them) and then perfect the complete work?

Original score: 5