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This probably isn't the kind of thing anyone can answer for someone else. So I'm not really asking for personal advice here so much as wondering how others think of it and handle it, I guess...
I've finished a collection of short stories and am coming out of a slump after a kind of sucky winter. I'm trying to figure out what kind of writing to do next.
There's only so much time and effort, maybe it's not so good to just do a little of this and a little of that as the spirit moves me. Maybe it's better to organize my plan, write mostly one kind of thing and try to get known for it. Or switch direction and go for money more than just writing whatever I feel like writing. And then there's another feeling like I'm copping out anyway and should pick up a second pen name and hit the darker, possibly deeper, corners of my tiny brain.
So, I've got a pile of stuff and just don't know- a couple of old drafts of novels, notes and chapters for a couple of non-fiction books, more story and article drafts. Plus of course, ideas that haven't been touched yet. Fiction, non-fiction, different genres and no genre, and all lengths. Not sure where I want to go next.
My question: Do y'all have any kind of overall master plan for your writing future or just go with whatever moves you at the time, or what?
I've finished a collection of short stories and am coming out of a slump after a kind of sucky winter. I'm trying to figure out what kind of writing to do next.
There's only so much time and effort, maybe it's not so good to just do a little of this and a little of that as the spirit moves me. Maybe it's better to organize my plan, write mostly one kind of thing and try to get known for it. Or switch direction and go for money more than just writing whatever I feel like writing. And then there's another feeling like I'm copping out anyway and should pick up a second pen name and hit the darker, possibly deeper, corners of my tiny brain.
So, I've got a pile of stuff and just don't know- a couple of old drafts of novels, notes and chapters for a couple of non-fiction books, more story and article drafts. Plus of course, ideas that haven't been touched yet. Fiction, non-fiction, different genres and no genre, and all lengths. Not sure where I want to go next.
My question: Do y'all have any kind of overall master plan for your writing future or just go with whatever moves you at the time, or what?
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