Writing The Follow-up Novel -- You Aren’t Really A Sophomore
You’ve heard this story before.The writing bug comes early. You’re a kid with ideas, with a desire to get them on paper, and one day you realize that you’re not ever going to stop. You also realize that some people actually make a living writing books, and since you’re going to be doing it anyway, why not get paid for the effort? You figure you’ll write a novel, find an agent to represent it, and land a fat publishing contract. Use the advance to pay for your mortgage, give yourself plenty of time to write another book. And so on.For most of us it isn’t that easy.What you actually do is write a novel (a science thriller, in my case) in the evenings after work, spend a year or so ...