What you're actually asking for is to deselect the object after it was drawn so the next pencil move will be a new object and not a subpath of the existing one. Actually, I don't want the selection to be active even when I make the object - so deselect afterwards is only halfway there, for me. ;)

I'd like to apologise in advance if I absolutely failed at the search function. :? I found one post asking for the same thing, but over a year old and without constructive answers, so I thought I'd try to repeat it: I use the pencil tool for my work. (I draw freehand, with a wacom tablet.) In Inksca...