Having surpassed the halfway point of my novel a few days ago, the draw to work on other projects has ramped up dramatically.
This usually happens to me around this time (or when I’m closing in on the finale). My brain is already drawn to what I’ll be doing next, and more of my cycles of my creative thinking is going into planning and dreaming the various plots or scripts for those.
It’s tricky. On the one hand, part of the job that keeps me moving forward is this constant drive for “the next” project. The next novel, the next short story, the next animation. I love that I’m always trying to figure out what I’m going to be doing next because there are just so many things I want to do.
The trade-off, of course, is that I can’t start the next project until I’m done this project, and so I need to keep at least some (ideally most!) of my focus on what I’m working on right now. A delicate balance between wanting to think about what comes next and needing to think about what I’m doing right now.
Either way, I’m looking forward to getting this novel finished up! My current temptation is to do a “short” animation for a music-video-kinda-thing just as a way to keep learning about the art, but we will see how I feel in a couple weeks when the novel is done!
Hope everyone out there is staying safe and healthy!