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Jul. 23rd, 2007 04:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erastesQuestion for all of you who have had more than one novel published, or anyone suffering from 2nd novel syndrome.
How do you do it? I've had my finger hovering over the "submit" button to my publisher all day, and haven't been able to press it.
What if they don't want it? What if they do and then the readers hate it?
ARGH!
Come on, please - how do you cope with this 2nd novel syndrome?
Oh and *mutter mutter* I'll have to write some fanfic later just to get it out of my system. Lucius deserves it.
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Date: 2007-07-23 03:37 pm (UTC)Jane Yolen (who has 200+ books out there) once told me that the key is to just keep going. She's one of the people I really admire, and I think she's right on this one.
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Date: 2007-07-23 07:14 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2007-07-23 03:39 pm (UTC)I'm still glowing from your kind words about Severus/Evan, you know.
And I'm going to glom on your fanfic VERY HARD. I may even dust off an old incomplete -- it's called "Edge of Seventeen," and it's an outtake from the Blacks' House Party sequence in Immortal Beloved -- Lucius/Narcissa het, can you forgive me? He's a very Valmont-esque seducer in it, anyway.
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Date: 2007-07-23 07:26 pm (UTC)*Avada Kedavra's*
And I meant it, few fanfics remain in my memory, but Immortal did.
And aw thanks!
xxx
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Date: 2007-07-23 03:51 pm (UTC)~ Stormy/Gina
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Date: 2007-07-23 07:30 pm (UTC)Want to hide under this blanket with me?
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Date: 2007-07-23 08:06 pm (UTC)Good luck with the submission. Standish was great and you can only have improved since then, eh?
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Date: 2007-07-24 02:58 am (UTC)Have some champers, we'll all feel better.
Good Lord, what was that grabbed the bottle, anyway?
Was that your cats?
On second thought, don't answer that, I *know* about some of your characters!
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Date: 2007-07-23 04:56 pm (UTC)(All my incomplete novels are in a box under the bed, whilst I continue 20 yrs of chunking out research and technical reports I despise, for audiences I'm indifferent to, and usually with only the "corporate" name on the front. Little writer's block eh.)
DO IT FAST! AND ON WITH THE LUCIUS!!!
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Date: 2007-07-23 07:33 pm (UTC)Lucius on way, I promise!
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Date: 2007-07-23 07:35 pm (UTC)I'll do it tomorrow.
Then hide under the bed.
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Date: 2007-07-23 06:41 pm (UTC)(And keep in mind that there are several more steps in the publication cycle, so that IF you discover some huge, broken part of your novel, you'll have time to correct it.)
And then move on to Novel the Third. :-)
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Date: 2007-07-23 07:36 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2007-07-23 07:45 pm (UTC)It was harder for me to put my 2nd novel in a trunk than it would have been to send it to my publisher. I had my reasons, though, and I made the right decision.
My 3rd will be published next year, and I'm waiting for word on my 4th.
It gets a bit easier but the anxiety remains.
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Date: 2007-07-23 07:54 pm (UTC)Thank 'ee!
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Date: 2007-07-24 01:41 am (UTC)One word of advice.... Don't look at it again until you have edits from your editor or a rejection. It's too nerve wracking to second guess your work.
Good luck, fingers crossed!
Shayla
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