Your first book is kind of a labor of ignorance. You don't realize the difficulty of it. Your second book is sort of a labor of fear. Then you sort of either hit a stride, or you don't.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.
The books are like children in that having written one doesn't make writing the next one any easier, because it's a new set of problems and a new set of challenges with each one, and having dealt with one before means that you now know how to do it.
When you write the first book of a series, you do have to be careful what you put in because then you are stuck with it.
My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.
If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.
With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again.
Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.
Each book first begins with a little idea.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.