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kingaling:
Alright. I'm not sure how many people this happens to. But I know that I'm one of them.....it's like this. I've always wanted to be a writer, and given that I've had much of my life as an only child to day dream..and much of my teens and now my early adult hood in doing that as well, I'm not too surprised that I come up with new ideas for story's..all. the. time.

This is both a gift and a curse.

Let me shed a little more light on my situation.

I have 22 separate story lines, none related to eachother or the same story arc or anything. They are completely separate from one another in both time/place/powers etc.

and of those 22 there is a 10 part saga that I'm working out and just started the rough draft of one of the first 3 books. the problem is, everytime I go to write or concentrate on just that one book. lo and behold..my mind soaks in some new ideas and I'm off on another story.

It's like a Muse of writing and unique ideas has taken my brain for it's apartment.


I just want to know if anyone else has this same problem, and if so how do you get to concentrate on one at a time?

thank you.

eviladam:
Oh yeah I know exactlly where you're coming from. I have some where in the neighborhood of 20 storys in various states laying around. Most of them are only a few pages in. It all ways starts the same way, I'll get an idea that will fester in my head and build and build untill it's become it's own basis for a story, and then I can't get any peace untill I put some of it down on paper.

Sadlly I don't have any thing helpful for focussing on just one. Let me know if you find a way.

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
Sheer, unmitigated, force of will.

Aided by bribing myself to stick to one project and being unmerciful with myself if I slip.

trboturtle:
Between fanfics, stories I plan to submit, and original submissions, I have about a dozen or so stories that I need to finish. I tend to concentrate on a story for a while, leave it, then come back to it later (maybe), or go off on a tangent. It's enough to drive me up the wall!

Annoying, isn't it?  ;D

Craig

eviladam:
Yeah it definentlly is annoying. I hate when I do that.

Like I have a zombie story laying around that every so often I become obsessed with for like a week and nothing else gets worked on.

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