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Do All Creatives Second-Guess Their Work?
Maybe, maybe not. I know that I do.
I’ve self-published a dozen books, sci-fi, fantasy, and Steampunk. As of this writing, I have 4 completed books I’ve edited that need to go to an editor. I have 3 unedited, complete books and am nearing the end of a 4 th.
The new series I’ve been working on — Savagespace — was planned and plotted to be 6 books total. As planned, they’d be around 200 pages each.
But then, I considered what I’ve been reading. Most of the sci-fi I’m reading clocks in between 300–450 pages. Hence, I’ve been considering combining the books in this series together — which will get me to around 400 or so pages, each.
Yet, book 3, by itself, is going to be closer to 250 pages. There’s a lot to it (and the remaining chapters to be written I don’t anticipate being short).
And then, I started reading another sci-fi series recently, and the books are — yup — about 200 pages each. So now I’m second-guessing how to approach this.
Hence my question — do all creatives second-guess their work?
My perspective
When it comes to creating, for me, it can be far too easy to second-guess.
