Struggling to write... and new ideas keep cropping up!

 

One of the biggest tribulations I've found as a writer is the ratio between writing time, and new ideas. I always have ideas, and most will never get the chance of becoming a story. However, there's periods of times, especially when I'm unable to find myself able to write due to other commitments, that I'm plagued with good ideas, one after the other! Unless it's something so spectacular that I cannot just let it sit, most of the time I don't get these ideas out, because I feel an obligation to stories I've previously started that I'm meant to be working on.

I'm at one of those crossroads at the moment. I mentioned recently that I have a new fiction idea that was based on a dream. This idea, is really exciting to me, but also incredibly hard to get right! It involves a lot of time within the storyline, to show a progression of life. And that's new to me. I can make months, weeks or days pass easily in stories... but this one requires bigger time frames and I feel silly just going "three years have passed and this is what's happened". Three years is a very long time!! So much can happen in the space of a week, let alone three years! Aigoo. It's probably not as poorly sounding as it seems to me, what I have written I mean. I'm just quite picky >_<

But with this, I've kind of been a bit slow with my fiction writing. And two days ago I was hit with another idea, that's equally as unique and interesting, and I could use the same person as in my current fiction (that's who I imagined it with), or I could easily use another person too. All the same, I'm torn as to what to write and wishing to just focus on ONE so I can write enough to start posting again. Aigoo, what a confusing mess! This is why people who rubbish writers and think story creation is an easy task really need to think again! 

I think I best stop my little vent here, and try and decide which path to take... though suggestions are really welcome, haha!

Chelle xx

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