For a lot of writers, the novel has quietly become the default starting point.
If you're serious about writing, the assumption often becomes:
start planning your novel… or your trilogy… or your series.
And if you're not doing that, it can start to feel like you're not quite doing the "real thing" yet.
But in this episode, I want to suggest something that might sound uncomfortable at first:
For many writers, you probably shouldn't be writing a novel right now.
Not because novels are bad.
Not because you shouldn't write one someday.
Novels are incredible creative undertakings. But I bet you shouldn't be writing one right now.
Join us inside the Fiction Writer's Toolshed to find out why.
