So what can a slow writer with nothing published do? Hope the first book takes long enough to sell that there's time to build up a backlog? Learn to revise faster, which is not the same thing as spending more time writing?
(And now I'm wondering again about the oft-asked question, is it better to write the sequel to an unsold book or an unrelated book first...)
This is why many writers find the second novel the killer novel. Because no one cares how long it took you to write the first one, but people will want the second one by a certain deadline, and many authors find the struggle to work to deadline almost paralyzing.
Many, otoh, don't.
In my case, because I was writing what amounts to one long story, I figured I would just continue until I'd finished it, so there really wasn't a question for me. In your case, things don't sound as clear cut.
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Re: Solutions?
Date: 2004-08-25 11:28 am (UTC)(And now I'm wondering again about the oft-asked question, is it better to write the sequel to an unsold book or an unrelated book first...)
This is why many writers find the second novel the killer novel. Because no one cares how long it took you to write the first one, but people will want the second one by a certain deadline, and many authors find the struggle to work to deadline almost paralyzing.
Many, otoh, don't.
In my case, because I was writing what amounts to one long story, I figured I would just continue until I'd finished it, so there really wasn't a question for me. In your case, things don't sound as clear cut.