Another First Novel

Writing the second novel is supposed to be hard, because you write into expectation.

What bollocks. Writing a second novel is hard because writing any novel is hard. With a first novel there is so much uncertainty. And if there's problems associated with a second, they are made up of uncertainty too.

The problem is always uncertainty. And also, the problem is certainty. The certainty that this second novel will not do all the things you dreamt of to get you through your first. All the hopes...