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kingaling:
When things do come to me, new things, while I'm working on the one that I REALLY want to focus on. I do go and write down the basic plot points, add a couple lines of dialogue. but by the time I've done that I lose interest in the main thing i'm writing so I tend to wait and not do anything.

blgarver:
Yep, I'm in the Plot Bunny club also. 

And for most of my life I would let the bastards win, and start writing the new idea.  Well, needless to say I'm 25 and only have 1 short story finished, and am approaching the completion of my first novel. 

I have several ideas, maybe 10 or so, that I want to get to, and they're itching at me all the time to get out of my head.  But I think I've got a handle on it.

It's mostly just telling those ideas that I'm not ignoring them, I'm just giving them time to mature.  That seems to work for a while, appeases them and keeps them quiet while I work on the current project. 

Plus, I just keep the goal in mind of completing something.  I'm anticipating what it's going to feel like when I finish this first novel.  That's what's motivating me right now.  But it took me a long time to finally throw off my gloves and say "All right, that's it novel, you and me, right now, it's on."  I think when I did that, and the other stories saw the determination in my eyes, they kind of toned down and waited their turn.

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:

--- Quote from: blgarver on April 13, 2007, 04:02:41 PM ---Plus, I just keep the goal in mind of completing something.  I'm anticipating what it's going to feel like when I finish this first novel.

--- End quote ---

It's good immediately, and good long-term, but be prepared for some "is that it ?" post-partum depression in the middle.

eviladam:
I finished my first one at like 19 or 20 and it was horrible. I wrote about half of a second novel with the same characters then I realised it was horrible. Like I must have been slipped acid when I wrote the first one. I almost finished another urban fantasy novel that I ended up abandoning mainlly because it just wasn't enough. I threw in a sub plot to get more out of it even and it was basically a long short story. I don't even think it falls into novella territory.

Rashad 117:
I know what you mean. I'm currently working on a story now and I have few other story ideas in  the back of my thoughts. In fact just the other day as I was writing my current story another idea bullied its way into my thoughts.

So, I have another little notepad where I'll write down other story ideas on especially the ones that I think are really good and just save em for later.

When I first started this whole writing thing I had so many freakin ideas running through my head and I wanted to write them all but then I realized at a certain point that if I tried to write them all at the same time that I probably wouldn't get any ONE story done.

One story at a time unless you're a really good and fast writer and can manage five good novels in two months.

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