I have been writing on average 5 pages of fiction every day for most of this year, and I can honestly say it's been smooth, aside from one or two problems that are almost entirely related to the format, i.e. posting on two internet forums. That's partly why I started writing a book, so I could do exactly as I wanted to and get my vision working as I wished instead of breaking it to get it to work as a serial posted on the net in games forums. With fiction I'm as happy as a frog in a very picturesque pond.

Guides, oh now that is totally different. The first guide was fine; a simple little thing summing up a few points and generally expected to eventually disappear into the ether. People loved it; it hung around, got expanded and revised, then pinned, then expanded some more and generally became a success I never even expected. Now expectations feel quite high; people expect good things from a froggy guide. I'm an innate perfectionist, and while I can keep that under control and working in a good way with fiction with guides it gets bad. I have a horror, an absolute horror of giving bad, incorrect or not so good advice. It upsets the perfectionist in me, and at the same time stomps all over the point of the guides. I want to give good advice. I also want to include everything humanly possible, not missing even a tiny shred of information.

The more 'famous' I become the worse it all gets. I really don't enjoy guide writing much.