| Book two in my Simon Canderous series, Back To Life, is complete! There's nothing quite as exciting as finishing the first draft of a book, except for the following moments: -realizing I need to read it and the sense of dread that comes with it -realizing I need to eventually let my editor read it and the sense of dread that comes with it -realizing I need to read my editorial letter on it and the sense of dread that comes with it -realizing I'll need to copy edit and the sense of dread that comes with it you get the idea... I'm not complaining really... or at least not too much. See, having the brass ring of a bona-a-fide publishing contract is great, but it also brings along a whole new can of nerve shattering worms... hmmm.. nerve shattering worms, I can use that! Once the nervousness of "oh will I ever get published is it worth writing at all?" goes away, there's the pressure of jumping through the next hoop. Book one isn't even on sale yet, and here I am obsessing over book two living up to it! Whatever that IT is.... Epic story teller, Janet Jackson asks the deep philosophical question "What have you done for me lately?" and that's pretty much the stage I'm at. There's now the need outperform myself and frankly, I don't know what that initial performance is! I suppose I should close with something like with great power comes great responsibility, but well, I can't say I feel all that powerful being pre-pub on Dead To Me and in the baby stages of birthing book two, except to put my humanity on my sleeve here. Nothing to learn here this week, I suppose... excuse me while I go print this beast out and get to reading... |
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It's ok, Anton... we learned something! That even if you have the contract, you still freak out over your book. Oh, and that timing may have you turning in a sequel before the first is ever published! That would be kind of scary too.
*hugs* I'm sure it all rocks... but I'll let you know once I read the first one! ;P
Congrats on finishing book two's story! It's gotta feel good pass that marker. And even if we glean very little from your post, it's nice to know you are confident enough to quote the prolific Ms. Jackson (if you're nasty).
Congratulations!
I'm looking down the throat of a January 15th deadline and still no completed first draft. The story's coming together, though. And this first draft is feeling a lot cleaner than the first time around, and by 'cleaner' I mean, less revisions necessary and not a decrease in vulgarity.
You keep that vulgarity flying high, you man slut you!
I know you have a lot of work ahead of you, but I am always happier when the damned thing is down on paper and not just taking up all that space in my head.
Hey, nothing takes up space in my head! Oh.. wait...