Running to stand still

Good advice, both of them. Hamster wheels can be self inflicted too: “I MUST get a book out in my main series next month!” When you’ve got a genre or series that keeps the wolf from the door, it’s easy to stress out and that just makes it all the harder to write. So you have to take a chance, now and then and either write “your heart book” like Kris recommends, or jump outside your comfort zone and write something very different.