I just finished writing something. Now I'm waiting for it to come out. And I'm feeling down.

Same here. It's like a breakup.

No, I mostly just watch TV, so no, I haven't had that experience.

were you just on NPR, interviewed by Scott Simon?

I always "cut the cord" and move on to the next project, if only just to keep busy. Once a book is completed and sent off through the pipeline, you sort of lose control over it.

R3 No. was there a guest on who was similarly depressed?

No but it was a gay writer (Sam J Miller) who has a new book out.

OP must be Jake Tapper.

Visual artist here. Always happy when a project or series is 'done'. To me art making feels like a combination of giving birth and walking a tightrope at the same time. Thrilling, scary, and exhausting. Then I will have days/weeks/months where I never want to make art again. Eventually an old or new idea will surface and I'll start playing. I've always wish that sense of play would continue through the whole process but it rarely does.

You are supposed to have 3 projects in different stages going. One you are working on, one you have completed and waiting to be published, and the next one already contracted.

get on the production line. widgets don't get made on their own

"waiting for it to come out" ... of what, your printer?

Uranus

It's a hot new vampyre novel series, where the vampyres are secret Lesbians and they all live in the Victorian age and secretly run things! In the second book, werewolves appear and Disrupt Everything!

What did you write about? Your bowel movements?

OP, be sure to tell us about every single step of your publishing experience! It'll charm the DLers into buying and fawning over you for months! then you can drop us like a cold potato and buy a goat farm.

R8 is spot on!

[quote] You are supposed to have 3 projects in different stages going. One you are working on, one you have completed and waiting to be published, and the next one already contracted.

I do. But there's still a transitional period when I can't pick up the other project I'm working on. It's not really a block. It's like the period after giving birth and before you start having sex again, if you know what I mean.

Humblebrag.

Or it's like coming down after you cum.

Or it's like coming while you're thinking of your errand list.

"I just finished writing something. Now I'm waiting for it to come out."

Where'd you put it, honey!

"It's a hot new vampyre novel series"