What's your strategy?

mohdadeebace 2025-06-23 14:17:08 UTC #1

I haven’t written anything since August last year. I started working on my story back in 2022 when an idea popped into my head, and it took almost two years to finish the manuscript by August 2024.

Between 2022 and 2024, I discovered this website and had a few chapters ready, but I didn’t upload them. I wasn’t confident I could keep up with the pressure of regular updates, so I focused on finishing the story first. Once I completed the manuscript and it felt like a solid, cohesive piece, I finally started uploading it—even though I wasn’t sure if others would like it as much as I did.

Thankfully, the feedback from readers—both online and people I know—has been really positive, which feels amazing!

But ever since I started uploading, I haven’t written a single new word. It’s almost been a year, and the silence is starting to feel dangerous. I want to begin my second book, but procrastination and the want of starting to work on a new idea keeps holding me back.

So, as I wander through these forums thinking about all this, I wanted to ask—how do you wrote/writing your story????

Have you wrote the whole manuscript before starting to upload??? Or,
Did you planned the structure of the story and as you upload it you're writing the story??? Or,
You're figuring out the story as you write it??? Or,
You're story is of a kind that needs to be wrote as it moves forward (Never ending kind of one)????

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And since I am asking i need to ask one more thing. On what should I work next???? (Answer only of you want to)

Second book in volkermord series that explores some serious past.
A zombie apocalypse kinda story with no zombies that explores the tendency of humans to protect those who they care about.
A love story whose concept revolves around the hands of a clock

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Btw, here is the work that I wrote before uploading on tapas

MeannCat 2025-06-23 18:52:40 UTC #2

Honestly, first figure out if this desire to work on a different project is derived from moving on from the current one or born from perfectionism and fear at the success of the current one. Sometimes your fear can disguise itself as a longing for a new thing because that new thing isn't yet a thing that has a possibility of being imperfect or failing.

Otherwise just start writing the story you're wanting to. Maybe also just try only writing a little bit at a time, you fell out of your original habit so it may take time to return.

mohdadeebace 2025-06-23 21:48:02 UTC #3

The reason I want to write this other work is totally because the idea of the concept of this new story and the themes it is going to explore....you see my current work is inspired from various previous works.... But this new idea I have has, despite being inspired has something original something that makes me question, whether people will except this or not, and it excites me to work on it...

As for my current work.... I have a blueprint of the story (of 4 to 5 books). I decided major plot points that will be catered, especially for book 3 to 5, but the real issue begins with book 2, as the content for this one, that I've decided is not that sufficient. I know the beginning of book 2 and it's ending and I know what should be the flow of story.... But the rest, such as the connections inbetween and the themes is still unknown.

That's why I thought if I work on something new maybe I get the idea to write the second book of volkermord

mccoyamandamarie 2025-07-14 23:09:15 UTC #4

I think you should write whatever inspires you! If you feel inspired to write a different story, than do that. If a second book to your series is calling you, then follow that. My strategy for writing is not for everyone, but I never have a problem with writer's block. I write non-linearly. Any time I think of a cool scene I write it down then decide later where I'm going to put it in the book I'm working on or some other book I'm also working on. I'm currently working on 4 different series and writing all the books of those series at the same time. I just write down scenes as they come to me and once I have enough scenes and they are in the order I like, I call the book finished. Or at least finished enough for publishing. I still add stuff to the books after publishing. Not big additions, just little tweaks here and there. People might think this is a very chaotic way to write, but it's also lots of fun and it works for me.

doitlikeomar69 2025-09-02 03:54:34 UTC #5

I wrote most of the chapters before hand then scheduled them just hard part is readers with things like costing to promote it's hard I learn to post early in morning to keep in fresh.