I was wondering why I was having difficulty spending energy on the next book in my french series. It’s partly because I have notes about it scattered around in different places. The skill required to consolidate notes aren’t the same as those required to come up with a decent outline, so I’m working on consolidating my notes and going through them. Some are my thoughts from two books ago and need to be revisited. Some of them honestly just need to be tossed but I don’t want to get carried away too quickly. I’m being deliberate about reviewing them, and putting them in order.
While doing that, I’m writing new scenes and short bits that will need to go somewhere. I used to try to write stuff for the one book I was actively working on, but I’m finding that too limiting these days. Sometimes there will be a scene that I know how to write, even though I’m pretty sure it’s not in the current book. So, I write it. It’s one of the many joys about self-publishing. I can work on what I want when I want.