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Originally Posted by Nancy Fulda
This is a very familiar scenario to me.
The new ideas are always shinier and easier to write because you haven't worked yourself far enough into the story to get mired in the plot. I keep a file of story fragments where I save good ideas for later.
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That's a really great point. Writing is extremely hard work, and even though the process of creating is wonderful, the execution of the vision sometimes can be a little...mundane and tedious, and then, as you say, once you start trying to reconcile a zillion plot lines into something that resembles an actual story...it's easy to start dreaming of "Newer and Better" things, anything other than what you're knee deep in.
Creating stories, is infinitely easier than actually writing them. So when you are slugging through the quagmire of the realities of writing a novel...I think our brains are secretly plotting to "skip school" so to speak, and go off to play. And that's where we get distracted by "new ideas"...and are tempted to sneak away from the real work and go and do something easy like create a new storyline or explore an idea.
Hm. I think I'm going to really try and monitor my behavior on this matter. I need to get better control over my muse and be a bit more disciplined in my approach to my written work.
Thanks for the feedback. This is like Writer's Therapy.
