I received some cutting feedback on the first part of my book. Now I am stuck!
I had no illusions about the quality of my first chapters, but still, there are so many things to change, refine, and rethink that I’m at a loss. I’m unsure whether to go back and revise now or finish this part until the Act 1 “finale”? Anyone with a hint?
At the same time, the side story, the one you will only know in book 2, also needs to be written because it needs to fit perfectly in the plot of book 1. And I am too much of a control freak to leave that by chance.
I am inexperienced, and it shows.

I should have tried a simpler book as my first. So I am also considering pausing this one and starting with a smaller, easier one. The one I started 20 years ago (if I can even find it again on that hard drive disk I have hanging around in some place in my house).

For the past week, instead of writing, I’ve been working on the marketing plan. Marketing plan for a book that I have not written yet. I have to laugh at myself sometimes.

And I write here. I’ve been feeling too much lately, so I need to bleed on the keyboard, hard and fast, to keep surviving unscathed.

I don’t know what to do, but I’ll keep doing something.