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Originally Posted by aecardenas
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.
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Aye, there's the rub. I jot down ideas, write out an outline, and sometimes even start writing until the new idea just runs out of steam. That way I can go back and concentrate on the story I was originally working on. More than once though, I just kept on writing until the new story was done.