Allow me to whine. I'll do it poetically. I'm not a full time writer. It's a hobby I've been doing since I was in middle school. I have written and completed two books, and I'm well into writing my third book.
Once upon a time I thought I would never even finish writing even one book. Goal posts change. People change, despite the old adage that they don't...they do - if they try. So I tried to write and finish a book. It was the hardest thing I've ever done. It's easy to become paralyzed in the first chapter when you realize you are the decision maker for every single thing and you can't get caught up on small things in the first draft. The first draft just begs to be completed.
For me, my first book was meant to be the first in a trilogy. After I finished the first one I immediately plowed into writing the second book in the trilogy. However, about half way through the second book I knew there were serious issues with the story and world I had created, due to feedback from an agent, and needed to stop writing it in order to get someone to edit and help me with the story challenges. And then one night during the pandemic, I was watching either Gilmore Girls or Great British Baking, something I'd seen before where my mind was totally watching, if you know what I mean, and it popped into my head what I should do. My intuition works this way - I will ask for clarity and an answer and it comes to me, always. And I knew I should stop writing the sequel to my first book, get the first book edited, and change gears into writing a stand alone story I've been teasing around in my mind since I was in high school.
