You had no problems with those things.įrankly, when it comes to art, when you edit, and polish and question yourself, the risk of you killing your work grows - as you will get rid of all freshness and imperfections that make the work alive and interesting - and you will kill your joy and belief in the work, and the risk of you never daring to let it go grows. I mean, just look at your favorites and read some 1 star reviews. At this point, I'm pretty sure people would forgive some possible problems just one gives them a story, and I'm 100% certain of that Scott Lynch can write a story even if it's not perfect. Pulp writers and paper serieal authors did that, and what they produced wasn't all crap. Don't know how many, don't know when, perhaps never.'īut if you say 'yes, there will be 7 parts to this, I already sold the manuscript, the cover is ready, I know what will happen' - then you have made a promise.Īsking when you are going to follow through with the promise is not in any way inappropriate.Īnd all that 'writing is art and you wouldn't want a rushed work' - Every professional artist worth their salt will tell you that 'yeah, it's not fun every day, but it's my work, and I do it, because that's what people do.' If people like Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway could do that, then Scott Lynch can do that. If you are a writer, you can say 'yes, I have planned sequels. *DON'T PROMISE SEQUELS THAT HAVEN'T BEEN WRITTEN YET.* But there is a very simple answer to this.

Sure, authors are human beings and writing is a process and life happens until it doesn't, and bla bla bla. Sometimes we just.don't think first, we just go with a feeling and because we feel it, it must of course be true and right. Whether or not we have tried to understand each other or found where frustration comes from and marked each other as rude or mean. We value each other and our feelings less and less and we talk or act before thinking through whether an action or word is necessary. I think we forget these things too easily when we go online and it's starting to bleed into offline contacts as well. My advice is to fill your library with many authors so the lack of one work is filled by another.ĭon't forget when you speak to each other you also speak to people too. There's also the fact that books are a work of art, they can't be rushed or they won't be half what you wanted and you'd be even more upset.

Someone who may have had a loss, or be dealing with things emotionally, financially or physically.

Someone who is already under a lot of pressure. Don't forget you speak to a person when you speak to an author. They need food, water, sunlight, human compassion and friends. Waiting is frustrating, but authors aren't machines.

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