If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.
Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.
I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on.

