The best thing would probably be to bring my work to a suitable pausing point in the next month or so, leaving the summer for freer, unrelated work which will help me to see if my interests have changed.
An idea that has developed out of my current work is to take orders from someone for a while and see where that goes. That is what I'll start next year with, and I'll think of it as a fresh starting point, so it feels uncomplicated and less stressful.
