www.andrewmackay.net: » Insecurity http://www.andrewmackay.net in search of inspiration, laughs, and great reads Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:00:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Writing Problems http://www.andrewmackay.net/2009/07/writing-problems/ http://www.andrewmackay.net/2009/07/writing-problems/#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:00:24 +0000 andrew mackay http://andrewmackay.wordpress.com/?p=217 James 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.

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