You are so badass for a multitude of reasons! For all the books you've written no matter what pace feels most natural! For that swim! For being you! I'm with you that the process can change between each book, and the pressure to have a book come out every single year has really started to get to me. But now my 2025 looks like it will be release-less and I feel like I have all this opportunity to play around and write whatever pops out of my brain next.
I don’t have a book coming out next year either and for the first time in my career that feels like a welcome breather rather than a cause for panic! Also: YOU are a badass, my friend!
I LOVED this post, Dashka. So affirming to see a wonderful writer wrestling with the same issues I'm dealing with right now. I know I CAN write fast, and I have, and sometimes it's been satisfying. I also know that my current project (first novel after a career writing plays) wants me to go slowly. And I want to do that, but oof! Hard.
I find the only time I'm not stressing about my writing speed is when I'm actually writing. If that's the case for you, too, I wish you many happy hours of exactly that.
Isn't it funny how the actual doing of it erases all the angst about HOW to do it. I think we all know much more about our own writing process than we give ourselves credit for!
You are so badass for a multitude of reasons! For all the books you've written no matter what pace feels most natural! For that swim! For being you! I'm with you that the process can change between each book, and the pressure to have a book come out every single year has really started to get to me. But now my 2025 looks like it will be release-less and I feel like I have all this opportunity to play around and write whatever pops out of my brain next.
I don’t have a book coming out next year either and for the first time in my career that feels like a welcome breather rather than a cause for panic! Also: YOU are a badass, my friend!
I LOVED this post, Dashka. So affirming to see a wonderful writer wrestling with the same issues I'm dealing with right now. I know I CAN write fast, and I have, and sometimes it's been satisfying. I also know that my current project (first novel after a career writing plays) wants me to go slowly. And I want to do that, but oof! Hard.
I find the only time I'm not stressing about my writing speed is when I'm actually writing. If that's the case for you, too, I wish you many happy hours of exactly that.
Thank you--
Isn't it funny how the actual doing of it erases all the angst about HOW to do it. I think we all know much more about our own writing process than we give ourselves credit for!