A little question about the pencil tool

I have just a tiny guestion about the pencil tool in illustrator.
When i want to draw like it is a real pencil and make a lot of lines with it, then everytime when i'm drawing lines are disappearing because i'm drawing it again.
Maybe thats because i'm drawing over the other lines...but is there a simple way to make new lines all the time, so i can draw a bunch of lines over each other and agross etc.
hope you understand my crappy english.
with love,
Linda

Double click the pencil tool icon and check the options. You won't want to "edit selected paths"

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