Authors have a hard time letting go of their work. When do you write the final “THE END” and click “PUBLISH”? Is a book ever truly done — and if it is, when?
This is a slightly revised transcript of my YouTube video on the subject. If you prefer to consume advice that way, here it is:
Hello, Writer! It’s #WriterWednesday, so let’s take a look at one of the writer’s eternal questions: When is your book done?
Unlike most of my Wednesday videos, no one asked this question. I decided to answer it of my own volition, apparently because I hate myself.
I wanted to tackle it because it’s something I wrestled with a LOT as I was wrapping up my most recent book release, Blood Lust.
So! When is your book done?
The English novelist Graham Greene once said “The writer is doomed to live in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.”
Poet Paul Valéry said that “A poem is never finished, only abandoned,” an attitude that authors often apply to their work.
