I’ve finished the second draft of the second book in the trilogy. My new plan is to finish a second draft of all three books, get them to my writing group for critique (they’re currently about 75% done with book 2) and then go back to book 1 and edit the crap out of that thing.

I’m finding that, for me, having the whole trilogy set before I get any one book completed is invaluable. I’m not yet skilled enough to see into the second and especially third books without having written them.