As Criminal Minds just wrapped the finale of season 9, rumors about the next season are already doing the rounds. But in a recent interview, show creator, Erica Messer clarified that writing for the next chapter hadn't begun yet.

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In a recent interview with TVGuide, Messer revealed that not much had been planned for the next season yet as the team was taking a well-deserved break.

"There's a version where we pick up and summertime's gone by just like in real life, so I don't know yet," she said. "We're just unplugging from the show in the next few weeks and the beauty of that is when the writers get back together, we can say, "I thought of this. What do you think?" We had such an amazing year."

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She also added that writing the heavy finale and last few episodes of the show -- which included the exit of Dr. Blake (Jeanne Tripplehorn) -- were pretty taxing. Messer also added that it helped that they already knew that they had been signed on for another season as it allowed them some relief and time to unwind.

"All of the writers are back for Season 10 and it felt like everybody needed to walk away for a bit. These last two episodes took a lot out of everyone. It's a lot of work, but the payoff is great," she said. "But everybody needed to enjoy their break this year because last year, we couldn't enjoy it as much since we didn't [get the early renewal], so everybody was afraid to go on vacation and afraid to do anything. This year, the minute we got that pickup, we were like, "OK, we're good? Who wants to go to Paris?" Not like that, but you know. I think Season 10 is going to hold a lot of fun stuff for us to do."

The second and final part of the finale, Demons, aired on Wednesday, May 14 on CBS at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

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