I don't know if all authors can relate to this, but I'm going to put out my struggle.
After finishing my first book, I was ready to jump into writing my second book. I was so ecstatic about starting a new journey until I got to the writing part.
Why?
Because my first book was my 'baby' in a way. I dedicated all my time to it, I even dreamt of it at night and I got attached to the MC. Because of that, I kinda adopted the MC persona and the art of telling stuck to me.
When writing my second book, I wanted it to be different. I wanted to be more mature in my writing, I wanted to adopt another style of telling a story but I quickly developed a writer's block because I wanted to get into the second book's MC but no matter how I tried, the #2MC quickly became an extension of #1MC.
How did you deal with this, dear authors? Help a girl out:)