Writing the second book – distractions

It’s damning when a fellow writer asks you what you’re working on, especially when the best you can say is you’re getting really good at procrastinating.

That “thing”

“Is what they say really true — that writing the second book is harder than the first?” a friend (and poet) asked me.

Yes, it is.

But not for the reasons you might suppose (at least for me). Many writers feel writing the second book is difficult because of expectations they’ve imposed on themselves. They usually sound something...