the toughest thing I've ever done
16th August 2017 | for Creatives | your 1st book, creating isn't easy, creative fear, novel writing, writing, Matthew Norman |
"When you're writing your first book, nobody really cares, except you. It's totally self-motivated. Writing [my second book] was the toughest thing I've ever done."
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to redeem the first book by writing a second
"The urge to produce another—to redeem the first book by writing a second—led to my own spurt of inefficient frenzy, which didn't result in anything of worth. I was stalled, not be writer's block, but by the conviction that whatever I wrote had to be of superior worth."
my first novel was a sensation
"I got published when I was in my 20s, and my first novel was a sensation. And I thought, 'Oh, my God! It's going to be like this all the time!' Then books two through eight were failures. I had five different publishers. Three of them went out of business. Two of them did nothing for the book and wouldn't take my calls."
