Interesting process link

[msagara]

jpsorrow posts about the evolution of process, or what each novel has taught him about his own writing so far. It's interesting, and I winced at the one book in which everything fell into place because I knew that the subsequent book would be so heart-breaking. It's always harder when you think you've finally arrived, that you know what you're doing -- because of course you start the next novel and nothing works properly or that smoothly again.

ETA: the actual link. Coffee infusion needed.

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[msagara.livejournal.com]

Even now I tend to want to think that far more experienced writers than me somehow find a 'system' that excludes them from certain insecurities.

For me, it's gotten worse with time -- possibly because the internal editor is so much smarter than it used to be. But I've become resigned to the insecurity as part of the process -- I don't think I value it in quite the same way you do, but I think I'd be a lot happier if I could. I'll have to squash it down into the loam of my subconscious and see if it grows roots there.