So Many Ideas

Let me just start this post by saying I originally wanted to make a post every day. Obviously, I did not stick to that. I'm going to try to update frequently, however, whether it be every day or every other day or once a week. I haven't decided yet. Anyway.

I'll just come out and say it - work on LE NOVEL has basically completely stopped since like Thursday. No matter how much I want to bring myself to even write a single page in that word document, I just end up staring at it until I suddenly find myself watching YouTube videos. How did I even get to YouTube in these circumstances? I'm not positively sure. But what I am sure of is that I have a new idea for a story.

This new story idea, while I won't go into much detail, is adventure-y with romance and action aspects and I seriously love it. It's only in developing/outlining stages right now, but it's consumed so much precious time that I could be using to work on LE NOVEL. It's funny, really. Whenever I first get an idea, I'm completely enamored by it until another new, shiny idea comes along. Then I want nothing to do with the first idea and everything to do with the second.

I feel like a lot of writers deal with this. Our minds are always bursting with ideas and it's hard to focus on just one. I've heard people refer to this before as "Story ADD", which I think can be an accurate way of describing it. It's why I get nothing done, because I can't focus on one idea. This both frustrates me and pleases me, because while I can't follow through with one idea my mind is always developing more.

So I've figured out that the only way to deal with this Story ADD is to push through the current work-in-progress, which right now is LE NOVEL. And at the end of the perilous journey that is writing LE NOVEL is the ultimate pot of gold, the chance to work on the new ideas that I have set aside to focus on one. It's a form of motivation and bribery that it looks like I'm going to need to continue writing. Not saying that I hate LE NOVEL - I actually really like it and think it has quite a bit of potential, but I don't have everything figured out and when I don't know where to go in a story I tend to just shove it aside and ignore it like a stubborn child. I am working on dealing with this, however. My goal is to have LE NOVEL done within the next few months, maybe (hopefully! But no promises) by April. Then I can work on revision and things and start on one of my shiny new ideas.

So many ideas! Not enough time!

That's it for today's post. It's terribly late, I should probably get to bed. Sweet dreams, anyone who reads this post.

- Meg