Oh wow. Yes me too. Me me me me tooooooooooo. And I'm really nervous about the next book. I have never felt good about it. So I'm fretting. And fretting. And did I mention fretting?
I have to ask: was it easier with your first novels? Was there less fretting?
I admit that I never feel good about a whole book when I send it out, and feel even less good about it when I'm reading page proofs -- nothing like searching for errors to make you feel that the book, in fact, is an error receptacle. But there are always one or two scenes which work so perfectly you can't dismiss the queasiness because if you think they're good, then what you think of the rest of the book is probably also true...
I don't read them when I get them as real books, either. I am both incredibly happy to have them, and incredibly certain that they're deeply flawed. In fact, I usually read them much later, often for research for later books. It's on the later reading that I can read them as if I didn't write them; I've forgotten the disconnect between what I thought should be there and what was actually on the page.
Well, and I'm usually working on something new, which I'm certain will be the Worst Book Ever *wry g*
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Date: 2008-02-14 05:03 pm (UTC)I have to ask: was it easier with your first novels? Was there less fretting?
I admit that I never feel good about a whole book when I send it out, and feel even less good about it when I'm reading page proofs -- nothing like searching for errors to make you feel that the book, in fact, is an error receptacle. But there are always one or two scenes which work so perfectly you can't dismiss the queasiness because if you think they're good, then what you think of the rest of the book is probably also true...
I don't read them when I get them as real books, either. I am both incredibly happy to have them, and incredibly certain that they're deeply flawed. In fact, I usually read them much later, often for research for later books. It's on the later reading that I can read them as if I didn't write them; I've forgotten the disconnect between what I thought should be there and what was actually on the page.
Well, and I'm usually working on something new, which I'm certain will be the Worst Book Ever *wry g*