Angst doesn't vanish with sales and publication. I'm chewing my nails over reviews right now, pre-release of the second book. And I _know_ those bad reviews are lurking out there, fangs bared....
Meanwhile, with a further two manuscripts winding their way through the bowels of publishing, I'm sorting out the same kind of self-doubt and uncertainty as you are on my current book, with characters changing their backgrounds while I'm 30,000 words into the story. So don't feel like the proverbial Lone Ranger.
Like another post suggested, pull out a club and whack that inner critic over the head. Apply butt to chair and fingers to keyboard. Write. God, ain't word-processors wonderful? You can put out "really shitty first drafts" and then change everything around without resorting to tape and scissors!
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Meanwhile, with a further two manuscripts winding their way through the bowels of publishing, I'm sorting out the same kind of self-doubt and uncertainty as you are on my current book, with characters changing their backgrounds while I'm 30,000 words into the story. So don't feel like the proverbial Lone Ranger.
Like another post suggested, pull out a club and whack that inner critic over the head. Apply butt to chair and fingers to keyboard. Write. God, ain't word-processors wonderful? You can put out "really shitty first drafts" and then change everything around without resorting to tape and scissors!
(Off to find a bigger club....)