I’m at a place of “I want to write, but I can’t figure out what I want to write”. I recently came to the end of a project that I’d been working on for a number of years, and while I feel like I’m done with that story (after about 1.3 million words, not intended for publication), I just can’t figure out where to go next. I haven’t quite landed on an idea I can get excited about.
I’m pretty sure I don’t want to be published. Nothing kills the joy of writing for me more than “okay, but is it marketable enough to sell?” No shade on anyone who wants to be published! It’s just not for me.