Working on my Second Book

It doesn’t feel the same anymore, though!

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After I published my first book Thorns of Healing, I thought it was motivating enough for me to begin and publish another. However, I didn’t know it would be three years after my first book. I can’t even finish a single draft in a day, even a fortnight for Medium. And here I thought writing a book would be easier if it’s my second.

I have acquired and rejected numerous book ideas in the last three years. Most of them were non-fiction. It was indeed gutsy and stupid of me to think that I could write more than 200 pages worth paying for when my first book was a poetry collection. Then, I tried to switch to fiction, in which, of course, I got rejected. By myself.

Multiple Personality (in) Order

The Dreamer

You see, when she puts on her thinking cap, she can go all over the place with her ideas! She has gone to heaven and hell, literally in search of a ‘great idea’. And I believe in her power of imagination. But there’s someone who doesn’t always do the same!

The Realist

She is the Ultimate Writing Champion (pun intended), as she fights her way through every thought in the most rational and planned way. Rejecting most of the ideas, and keeping the…