The Pressure To Produce Faster
If you are an author–at least in today’s Indie world–you have likely been thinking about speed. How fast can you write? This is a question that paralyzes me. Before I started publishing, I spent months writing books. The first YA book I wrote (Death’s Awakening) took over a year to write, and much longer to actually edit and publish. I felt pressure to make my work the very best it could be. I studied books on writing and read books by my favorite authors, taking notes on what I could do to improve my craft. I still read books on craft…