Writing Problems
Posted in writing on July 16th, 2009 by andrew mackay – Be the first to commentJames A Owens, author of the Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica, wrote an interesting post a little while back about the problem of being mid-publication in a series.
you will be wondering if Book Four actually worked, because you’re continuing those story threads in Book Five, and suddenly, you panic – because you are, for the moment, CONVINCED Book Four is awful. And no one knows it because it isn’t out yet.
Of course, on the one hand, it sounds like a problem I’d totally love to have. On the other hand, it’s a good reminder that creative sometimes equals insecure. That can really mess with your head, whether you’re ridiculously successful, moderately so, or perhaps even not at all. It all comes back, I think, to why you are doing what you do.
