[Democracyman]

I am fairly new to writing and stuck in a fairly big non fiction project. I have had ideas for fiction books but really have no idea on how to write fiction so it is not so hard for me not to stray. For me I have a strong purpose to finish my current non fiction book so that purpose is making me stick with it no matter what. I will finish it if it takes the rest of my life is my attitude and it will be a professional quality book is my goal, I will not cut corners. I am thinking of doing it as a three part book though. The subject is on health.

I did read once Louis Lamore would work on two books at once, one in the morning the other in the afternoon. I am struck on how different writers work, they all are different in some way in their writing habits.

Find what works for you and stick with it, if boredom is the problem then maybe two projects at once will turn the trick.

Another idea is to take a new idea and let the thoughts roll for a week or some other time frame that gives you enough time to get the romance of the new idea out of your system, after this amount of time then work on it if you must. I find that this works for me, as I am determind to work on my one project I just let myself jot some notes and spend a little time thinking on the new dream project.

As you get older it will get more easy to focus on one project as the ability to simply imagine/dream greatly decreases with age, I find this to be true myself at age 45 I hardly spend time imagining/dreaming things, much less than in my youth.

What I like to do for a writing "warm up" is to write a few posts on a forum to get my motor running, then go into the project, this may help.

Dan