What's the Biggest Surprising Thing About Writing?

Mark O'Mara: My success is completely surprising. I often joke that if anybody actually thinks they're going to sell this many books, they're probably an asshole. The biggest surprise for me was I had a dream, I worked towards that dream and I hit it way younger than I ever thought I would. And when I hit it, I lost it. Like being still being young and not having a dream anymore or knowing what to do next. It's that kind of like sinking feeling of like anything you do next is going to be disappointing to everyone, including yourself. So that was a surprise on the personal level.