Somebody said that writing the second novel is harder than the first.

Oh, wait, it was Daniel J. Hogan.  And he said it here.

I definitely get where he’s coming from.  I have been far more attentive to The Glass Crown’s shortcomings, as I write them, than I was to those in The Remembrance.  I know that once I finish, there will be rewriting and editing galore to make the story flow coherently, and to fill in gaps and inconsistencies.

The Remembrance seemed to flow out of me, once I really got going.  I feel like I’m prying out the Glass Crown with a crowbar, word by word.  For The Remembrance, getting the stuff in my head onto paper was my primary focus.  For The Glass Crown, I want to get the stuff out of my head, and put it onto paper WELL.  That’s a whole different class of intimidating.