On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Steve Brust wrote: > ... Finishing a first novel is the hardest thing a writer > will ever have to do [...] Ever try to write a non-cringe-causing villanelle? I'm not at all a novelist, but based on hearsay - is it not the case that it's harder to write a satisfactory second novel than a first? I figure I've got a novel in me somewhere but probably not two.