Should I continue current novel or finish and release a separate one first?

[Wiblurneko]

The current novel I'm writing has kind of gotten draining but I started working on another one that I have been enjoying writing (It's not that I'm not enjoying writing the current one it's just kind of draining to have a deadline I set for myself every week). Would it be better to try and finish the new one (that will take a while) and release that daily for more traction while writing the one that already has 13 chapters or to try and continue the current one even if it is draining?

 

[CupcakeNinja]

The current novel I'm writing has kind of gotten draining but I started working on another one that I have been enjoying writing (It's not that I'm not enjoying writing the current one it's just kind of draining to have a deadline I set for myself every week). Would it be better to try and finish the new one (that will take a while) and release that daily for more traction while writing the one that already has 13 chapters or to try and continue the current one even if it is draining?

who the fuck said you NEEDED to achieve that deadline? your past self? fuck your past self, that cunt has no sympathy for your current self. Take what time you need, just dont be off by several weeks because then the lazy cunt in you will set his claws in ya, trust me.

Anyway, starting a new novel isnt a good idea if you're almost finished with another. Its a distraction. Its EASY, which is why you enjoy it more. Its new, fresh, the world is putty in your hands and you think you have so much more freedom. And you do....but dont give in! Don't let that temp you!

 

[ThrillingHuman]

The current novel I'm writing has kind of gotten draining but I started working on another one that I have been enjoying writing (It's not that I'm not enjoying writing the current one it's just kind of draining to have a deadline I set for myself every week). Would it be better to try and finish the new one (that will take a while) and release that daily for more traction while writing the one that already has 13 chapters or to try and continue the current one even if it is draining?

Go on with the first one

 

[Deleted member 54065]

The current novel I'm writing has kind of gotten draining but I started working on another one that I have been enjoying writing (It's not that I'm not enjoying writing the current one it's just kind of draining to have a deadline I set for myself every week). Would it be better to try and finish the new one (that will take a while) and release that daily for more traction while writing the one that already has 13 chapters or to try and continue the current one even if it is draining?

If you're drained with your current one, take a break. A week, a month, a couple of months? Your reader will understand as long as you inform them properly.

I'd suggest never to start a new one if you'd base your decision on what you feel. Sure, you may write for fun, but starting another story you're not sure of finishing atop of another unfinished novel will speak volumes on your reputation as a writer. As such, there is the possibility that your future works might not pull in audience because, "this guy will only abandon it in the end". (A different but related example is me, who kept on deleting and reuploading his works before in this site that the readers gave up on me.)

Take note, I did not say never to start a new one while doing another. I myself are writing several works at the same time, but, my readers know that even though it may take me months to release a volume, I'd release one anyway (my hard-earned reputation).

Besides, writing is not always a bed of roses. Definitely, we'll have to drop in some discipline and effort if we want to finish something.

Hope this reply helps you decide. ?

 

[Corty]

Just don't leave your readers hanging. That is the worst possible outcome. Taking breaks is ok but never finishing a story that has others invested in is a sin. If your readers give you their most important resource, time, to read your story, they ought to have closure. They can never get that time back. I still feel awful that I dropped one of my stories before. I know how I hate when a book that I followed never got its ending and is left in perpetual limbo.

 

[Love4NovelGuy]

Reboot syndrome is hard to stop when it starts. Try finishing your work to at least an open ending first, if you really can.

 

[zerogero]

I'll read an author's work even if I know he or she will abandon it. I don't judge them and say this author isn't going to finish so why read?

 

[Deleted member 54065]

I'll read an author's work even if I know he or she will abandon it. I don't judge them and say this author isn't going to finish so why read?

Well, an author is fortunate to have you as his/her reader. Sadly, many readers didn't have this kind of mindset.

 

[JayDirex]

The current novel I'm writing has kind of gotten draining but I started working on another one that I have been enjoying writing (It's not that I'm not enjoying writing the current one it's just kind of draining to have a deadline I set for myself every week). Would it be better to try and finish the new one (that will take a while) and release that daily for more traction while writing the one that already has 13 chapters or to try and continue the current one even if it is draining?

*pat pats* @Wiblurneko

These dudes will tell you to keep going no matter what. But that's bullshyte. A quick search shows me that your current story only has 11 readers (and that's because the type of story genre is not that popular up here, but I digress.)

Who the heck wants to keep writing a story no one is reading? So yeah, if you are over it, drop it. Write something else.

BUT KEEP IN MIND THE REAL PROBLEM:

If you want readers on SH, you have to write the genres and type of stories they want. Because if you don't, your new story will end up like your old story. Thirteen chapters in waiting for readers while you write, "what you're passionate about."

If you want customers (readers), you gotta give the customers what they want!

1. Power up fantasy
2. Genderbend from guy to girl (don't worry, you don't have to get deep with it. Just have him wake up a girl and that's enough to keep at least 75 readers hoping to see his tits at some point).
3. Isekai
4. Harem (but no romance) readers up here hate simps who fall in love.
5. Make sure the MC is not a despicable crying weakling, and give him ONE THING he's great at. like developer, engineer, chef, (something he could use in his other world to impress the locals). Don't make him completely useless, otherwise what would be the point?

^ 100 readers the first week, guaranteed

 

[TheEldritchGod]

Do I have to be the one? I do, don't I?

Spoiler: Obvious Solution

DO BOTH.

 

[Twin]

Considering my past regrets of not writing more than 10 chapters, I would say continue the current.

 

[georgelee5786]

Continue the current one

 

[Zakuro]

fuck your past self

+1

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Do you. If you'd like to train yourself to finish stories, finish. If you're just writing for fun, cut out the bad energy.

 

[Deleted member 68927]

If you begin to set novels on the back burner, you will never manage to get any of them completed. And if the novel is incomplete, then all the toil you have done up to now, will be miningless. That is why I complete a project, before posting it, these days. As someone who wrote two projects at the same time twice, I have to say, it is draining. View the story as many episodes, and you will get your spark back.

*pat pats* @Wiblurneko

These dudes will tell you to keep going no matter what. But that's bullshyte. A quick search shows me that your current story only has 11 readers (and that's because the type of story genre is not that popular up here, but I digress.)

Who the heck wants to keep writing a story no one is reading? So yeah, if you are over it, drop it. Write something else.

BUT KEEP IN MIND THE REAL PROBLEM:

If you want readers on SH, you have to write the genres and type of stories they want. Because if you don't, your new story will end up like your old story. Thirteen chapters in waiting for readers while you write, "what you're passionate about."

If you want customers (readers), you gotta give the customers what they want!

1. Power up fantasy
2. Genderbend from guy to girl (don't worry, you don't have to get deep with it. Just have him wake up a girl and that's enough to keep at least 75 readers hoping to see his tits at some point).
3. Isekai
4. Harem (but no romance) readers up here hate simps who fall in love.
5. Make sure the MC is not a despicable crying weakling, and give him ONE THING he's great at. like developer, engineer, chef, (something he could use in his other world to impress the locals). Don't make him completely useless, otherwise what would be the point?

^ 100 readers the first week, guaranteed

But, if he writes for readers, and not for himself, wouldn't that be draining too? I mean, having readers is good, but if you can't smile while writing, what is the point?

 

[Wiblurneko]

This was all extremely helpful. The majority seemed to be for continuing and honestly at this point I'm completely fine with that, I think my main problem is all the ideas I have on the backburner that I want to get too but I don't want to just leave a story unfinished. @JayDirex Only problem with that is it is like @doravg said "if you can't smile while writing, what is the point?" (I'm fine with doing some of those genres and I hate dumbass pathetic mains that are absolute shite but I don't really care for genderbend stories that much (Not saying they're bad just not usually my thing) and definitely couldn't write one.) I also like to try and post onto other sites as well so really it's circumstantial.) I'll write more for the current story but without any deadlines and post it if I feel I have enough to keep any readers if I ever get any new ones engaged.

 

[AiLovesToGrow]

Professional writers all have a file of ideas. To make sure they meet deadlines and keep focused on one story at a time, many of them use the One Page method.

Anytime you have a new idea, whatever it is or how cool it is, you have One Page to write it out. In the modern world of not having pages, that can translate to 300 words. So you write out everything you need to remember so that if you want to go back to that story, you can. Then you file it away and forget about it until you are finished with the current project.

It is not uncommon for most writers to have enough ideas that even if they wrote all day, every day until they die, they would not be able to finish all stories they have in that folder. It is one of the leading reasons why many authors nod politely when someone gives them a new idea and then never use it: they have more than enough of their own ideas they want to write about.