Where's YOUR writing career going?
If you're a new writer, it's OK if you don't know, because you're in new territory. "Don't know," is fine.
If you're an established writer, and think "Heaven help me, I have no idea", that's fine too. Sometimes you can't know, because you're being nudged into a totally new direction. You intuit that what you're doing is right for you, but you don't know why you just dropped three clients, or stopped working on your novel, or created a website about learning how to cook.
Follow your instincts. It's your career, and your instincts are the best and only guide you need.
"Don't know" is a sign that you're in a transitional phase in your writing career. That's a great place to be, but it can be uncomfortable.
For example, in Gone Blogger Gone, Lynn Viehl writes:
Back in 2000... I guessed that electronic books were going to be a big part of the future of Publishing. That's why I started self-publishing free original e-books online as promo for my print novels, and subsequently founded most of my readership on that free content.Ten years ago I also suspected online journaling by authors would be big someday, which is why I've been a blogger for so long. The power of free print books has also helped build my readership, and the blog has given me a chance to identify interested readers and put real books in their hands.
In 2000, who knew ebooks and blogging would become sensations?
In 2010, with the launch of the iPad, and many publishers bowing to the digital inevitable, ebooks will finally become mainstream.
Blogging is completely mainstream in 2010, and is now rarely considered "online journaling", which was quite a pejorative term in those early years.
Be happy when you "don't know"
It's easy to panic when your instincts tell you to do something (or stop doing something), especially if few other writers are doing it. As Lynn points out, in 2000 ebooks and blogging were considered at best innovative and at worst bizarre.
If you realize that you're in a transitional "don't know" phase in your writing career, stay with the discomfort, rather than fleeing back to the familiar, or deciding that you have writer's block.
Follow and trust your instincts.
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