Write, Wrote, Written discussion

You could always pull a Stephen King and write a several-thousand page novel if you wanted. Maybe make it span over a bunch of generations, using one idea for each of them?

I have no idea what I'm talking about, though. XD

I see both pros and cons to that Hallie. For an example, I have a lot of story ideas as well. Most of the time I just jump to which one I want to write on at the moment. I suppose it could work, gradually, but it may indeed take more time than just completing one first.

It sounds like you have what I have, the creative curse! :) I just discovered Scrivener, which is a great program to throw all my ideas into. I also have a short attention span, so I'm now focussing on shorter books (about 65,000 words) with more action. I can't jump around, though, like Emmeline, because I'd forget the details of each story. But that's just me.

I realize I'm a little late to this question...but I have a similar problem. Whenever I get a new idea I get super excited about it and kind of ignore all my old ideas...only to lose excitement in the new idea later and drift back to older projects. By doing this I didn't get anything done, so I created a folder that had my current project in it and I would finish that project before moving on to the next

I've been known to work on several books at once. The trick is to get those ideas out of your head so you can move on. I currently have folders containing thoughts for at least 5 books on my pc desktop. They live there, developing steam and essence, quietly breathing, one by one taking a step forward, but then hanging back - until slowly each either gets finished, polished, and published, or just continues to breath quietly for a while. - But my books are very different each from the other. The possibility also exists that some of your seemingly separate ideas could fuse together into a richer, more complex story for you.

Edward that is a lovely way to look at the book starts that live up in the clouds. I too have many book ideas and I type some and jot some. I play them out to a point and then go back to my main 'novel'.
I am glad to see I am not the only one who feels like they might be ADD. I like the description 'creative curse' Carolyn.
Ideas run around in my head and I jump from on thing to another as the rabbit trails coalesce.
I am the one guilty of reading 6-8 books at a time and flitting from project to project, a lot of the time never finishing.
Many things I write are just ideas and make a good short piece or article but not short story or book. Anything but to finish the novel that I do have a good bit of work on.
I need a trick on how to focus!!!!!!! Help!!!!

Often it is not the goal that counts, but the paths and offshoots we follow as we grow. You may think you're getting side-tracked as you explore all these divergent ideas but they are all helping you develop, and to express your creative soul.
As one of my characters said in "Entertaining Naked People", "Ain’t where you think you wanna go counts s’much as where life trips you up tryin’ to git there.” - He also said, “Y’know, sometimes the why of things just don’t much matter. Don’t none of us know the real why behind most things, anyways. But here we are, two strangers parked aside a long stretch of nowhere, and I get the strong feeling we may be both trying to pull ourselves up outa the same cowplop.”

Great writing Edward. Thanks for the advice...I don't feel so bad thinking that all my rabbit trails are actually leading me somewhere. It's the trip and not the destination.

This has nothing to do with what we're chatting about, but I just love this character,Jeremy, in "Entertaining Naked People". Here is probably my favorite thing he said:

“There’s so many folks out there thinkin’ prayer is only so’s they can tell God exactly what they want. Settin’ around waitin’ for Him to drop it in their lap. ‘I put my faith in Him, so He owes me.’
“Been figger’n on that’n a long time. All things don’t necessarily come to folks who don’t do nothin’ but wait. Even if they’re prayin’ while they’re settin’ there. You can put all the faith in God you want to, but you try crammin’ Him behind the wheel while you nap in the back seat; you’re still gonna drive into a tree.”

Love it....very good. I like Jeremy's thinking. We can't just sit in a cave and wait for God to drop good fortune like rain. We need to participate in life. Is your book published?

Yup. And there's an international book giveaway link for it if you follow this link back.
- And, as to your other point, another of my characters says in "The Gardens of Ailana":

Joan told her, “Knock it off, Marsh; you don’t always have to be such a putz.”
Marsha, still leaning onto the sink, told them, “You guys and your always-must-make-nice crap.
“Mincing around with your damned fresh coffee, playing Little Miss Nicey-Poo alla time. The charming hostess with all her jokes, never hurting anyone’s feelings. Sitting around trying to sort out the karmic implications of sneezing on the burglar. Fuck it! Some things you just can’t Om away.”

Cute. I like that. I only sneeze on a burglar with a .357! My book, thus far, is a cozy mystery. One of my favorite genres and set in the Texas Hill Country.

Tell me about it. I get too many ideas and I try to shove them together for my own Mystery/Suspense/Thiller story series.

Shine & Loki wrote: "Tell me about it. I get too many ideas and I try to shove them together for my own Mystery/Suspense/Thiller story series."

Ha! That's exactly what I am doing right now, trying to shove ideas together. :) I have 3 different book ideas, all of which I am writing at the same time, but am trying to figure out how to mesh two of the ideas together into one book. Happy writing! Aloha!

Celia wrote: "Great writing Edward. Thanks for the advice...I don't feel so bad thinking that all my rabbit trails are actually leading me somewhere. It's the trip and not the destination."

"Rabbit trails"....great way to put the condition of so many ideas trailing off into different directions. Made me laugh because I am currently dealing with this now. :)

It's a term used here when you are like me and you are talking and you are like ADD and.....oh look...a dog!

I'm having a hard time trying to choose one idea and work solely on that idea, so which one would you like to see, by the way I'm a screenwriter and plan to turn my screenplays in TV pilots or films.

-Imagine a world where the government forces you to label yourself, your label is your name, and you can only live with people who have the same label as you, you may be ignorant, a dyke, black, etcetera. The only ones free to be who they are without shame, are the elite. They are wealthy, snobby, and they control themselves. Suicide rates are high in the labeled villages. But that's okay, because the elite and government want to cleanse the world of all scum (the ones labeled). Now imagine what would happen if, the labeled began to fight back? MC, the antagonist, knows, she is an elite, and she wants to kill all who stand in her way of a pure world, this is her story, come watch it. (TV PILOT)

-I came up with this space idea yesterday. It's based on fact and stuff so here's the fact; basically this new planet was found, the planet is called Kepler 452b and it's just like a bigger earth, scientists are looking for a way to get there now, but there is a chance that with this particle called antimatter (it costs $100 billion for a milligram of it) we could create a rocket powered on antimatter and get to Kepler in 2000 years. But then here's the trick to it space travel doesn't work coherently with time so; even though it would take 2000 years the people who go on the trip would only age a month. (TV PILOT)

-What if when you reached a certain age, scientists could make you be born again? (TV PILOT)

-The Queen of Summer Fae's world is turned upside down when a beautiful man seeks to be apart of her kingdom, but was sent to kill her by her mother. What happens when they fall in love and he doesn't kill her? (Not sure if it'll be a pilot or film)