Usually, the editor would only come to you to sign a contract when you wrote 10,000 words. However, this was not absolute. Some editors might come to you to sign a contract before they started reading your novel. However, if your novel is not attractive enough, the editor may not be interested in your work and refuse to sign with you. Therefore, in the process of writing a novel, you need to constantly improve your writing skills and the attractiveness of the content in order to increase the exposure and signing rate of your work.