After finishing one writing project, how do you decide what to work on next? Since self-publishing my first book in March I've been flitting endlessly between unfinished WIP's and I can't seem to stick at one longer than a couple of weeks before I start thinking about one of the others and wishing I was working on that instead.
On the one hand, I have two unfinished projects (one is a first draft, the other a third draft/rewrite) that I feel I *should* be working on as my plan was to self-publish those next, so I've been trying to focus on those, but I'm feeling a pull towards other writing in an entirely separate genre with less expectation behind it.
I'm not sure how much of my problem is my attention span (or lack thereof!) during lockdown and how much of it is 'second book syndrome' and my anxiety that I might never finish anything ever again.
So, how do you all go about choosing what to work on? Do any of you work on multiple WIP's at once, and if so, how do you make it work? I have to say, it doesn't seem to be working very well for me so far, but maybe I'm doing it all wrong?!
Any suggestions or advice gratefully received!
On the one hand, I have two unfinished projects (one is a first draft, the other a third draft/rewrite) that I feel I *should* be working on as my plan was to self-publish those next, so I've been trying to focus on those, but I'm feeling a pull towards other writing in an entirely separate genre with less expectation behind it.
I'm not sure how much of my problem is my attention span (or lack thereof!) during lockdown and how much of it is 'second book syndrome' and my anxiety that I might never finish anything ever again.
So, how do you all go about choosing what to work on? Do any of you work on multiple WIP's at once, and if so, how do you make it work? I have to say, it doesn't seem to be working very well for me so far, but maybe I'm doing it all wrong?!
Any suggestions or advice gratefully received!