I had heard, from many people, that the second book is the hardest one you’ll ever have to write. “I don’t remember mine at all,” says one author friend. “Except that I cried the entire time.” The day after I finished the final draft of my first novel (Promising Young Women), I started writing the next one. I thought I was being very smart. I thought that I could outrun second-novel syndrome by simply writing the second before anyone had …
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