It's interesting, I just took a year off. Worried about writing letters to agents and publishers and everything else. And then all of a sudden about a year and maybe three or four months ago, I just sat down and wrote 100 pages of the sequel in a couple of months. And I was really on fire. Then The Catch got accepted and I went back to getting it published.
Writing is like flying.
I want to fly across the North Atlantic and have some pretty flight attendant feed me a steak somewhere near Ireland, that's unrealistic too. Ninety per cent of commercial pilots are killing mosquitos in a swamp near New Orleans, or flying commuter or putting brush fires out in Red Deer, Alberta or whatever. They don't end up in the airlines. You've got to get into it because you love it. And I say the same about writing.