"To be or not to be", is a quote I have found myself looking at and thinking about as I go about creating my own world in my recent novel.
As a writer, I have little experience, having only started writing at the beginning of this year when I wrote three or four novels - that never got finished - with around 150k words collectively over the course of two months. My first book was the typical over-ambitious undertaking that I'm sure all people who are new to the creative scene have tried before, with its only saving grace being the fact that I had decided to use an anime world as a crutch for world-building. In the second book I had decided to write, I had made the very original choice to try doing what everyone else was doing, and I succeeded: my small novel, over the course of thirty or so chapters, raking me in over one million views in a month. Honesty, I had been overjoyed, but I had quickly burnt out, not because of any lack of ideas but because I wasn't happy with it. So, in my third book, I tried to focus on a character I had been passionate about as I had grown up. While not as popular as my first novel, the novel had done fairly well, yet, again, I dropped the book.
So, here I am, one month later, having found my passion for writing again but now stuck with the question "to be or not to be".
Do I risk the uncertainty I know creating an original world and characters will bring if I continue with my novel or do I retreat, returning to something I know I can write and know will be popular?
Edit: to clear up any confusion I would like to say that I wish to make money out of my writing and my question is whether or not I should push on with an original world or go back to something I know will be popular.
