Okay, I have to warn you, despite this being the blog of an erotic romance author, the performance anxiety you are thinking of is not the kind I am thinking of :)
I'm thinking of writing. I never really understood this before I was contracted, but I have since learned what authors mean when they say writing is hard work.
Don't get me wrong, even before being accepted I knew that it could be hard. That getting things just right was hard. Getting situations so they don't seem too pat, putting a heroine in danger in a way she didn't come across as TSTL (Too Stupid To Live), creating believable characters. All that IS hard work.
But I have decided that this is even harder. Once you've been published and people have liked your stuff, suddenly you have to live up to that stuff. You have to make sure the next story is as good as the last. You have to give something to your editor that is just as good. When you sign up to write something, you need to get it written.
That is even harder, I think, than writing to get published. The writing to not disappoint those that have supported you on your road to publishing. Now that is hard work.
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