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I have a LOT of plot ideas, and have most saved under a private message to myself on facebook a lot time ago.
All together I have finished at least 4 long stories that go above 80 pages, there might be a couple more I don't remember. I know there is plenty of short stories I wrote and saved in hope to mix into a compilation but most of those were from when I was in my single digits and so there are a lot of grammar errors I need to fix; it was before I ever knew about paragraphing or using quotation marks. Some of them are recent or have passable grammar, but I am far too lazy to search through all of my document files for all of them.
Most of the time I will begin a book, maybe get 3 or 4 pages in and I either make some kind of error (it's very easy for me to accidentally switch tenses or point of views), I get stuck, or I just put it off for a day, then the next day the same, etc. until I forget all about it and when I remember it I think back to all of my other unfinished writings and find no reason or interest to continue working on the one I ditched.
Ideas pop up in my head, left and right, and always been that way since a child. I remember seeing a movie Sharkboy and Lava Girl when I was 7 or so and I took interest in wanting to write my ideas down and a little later in life I took interest in writing these ideas into actual plots. I used to love writing with a pencil and paper as a kid, I'd go on to make sequels until I was told by people that they have to be longer stories, and so I began the sequel except put it in the same first book to extend it.
Lately I've just been slacking. It's nothing too different, I'll write a couple pages and ditch the project due to impatience and wanting to get to the point, or at least rush into the middle so it'd be funner to write. However, now, it's harder for me to get motivated than it used to be, because another plot idea would pop into my head and I start on that instead.
Anyone have any similar problems? How do you get past this loop of procrastination?
All together I have finished at least 4 long stories that go above 80 pages, there might be a couple more I don't remember. I know there is plenty of short stories I wrote and saved in hope to mix into a compilation but most of those were from when I was in my single digits and so there are a lot of grammar errors I need to fix; it was before I ever knew about paragraphing or using quotation marks. Some of them are recent or have passable grammar, but I am far too lazy to search through all of my document files for all of them.
Most of the time I will begin a book, maybe get 3 or 4 pages in and I either make some kind of error (it's very easy for me to accidentally switch tenses or point of views), I get stuck, or I just put it off for a day, then the next day the same, etc. until I forget all about it and when I remember it I think back to all of my other unfinished writings and find no reason or interest to continue working on the one I ditched.
Ideas pop up in my head, left and right, and always been that way since a child. I remember seeing a movie Sharkboy and Lava Girl when I was 7 or so and I took interest in wanting to write my ideas down and a little later in life I took interest in writing these ideas into actual plots. I used to love writing with a pencil and paper as a kid, I'd go on to make sequels until I was told by people that they have to be longer stories, and so I began the sequel except put it in the same first book to extend it.
Lately I've just been slacking. It's nothing too different, I'll write a couple pages and ditch the project due to impatience and wanting to get to the point, or at least rush into the middle so it'd be funner to write. However, now, it's harder for me to get motivated than it used to be, because another plot idea would pop into my head and I start on that instead.
Anyone have any similar problems? How do you get past this loop of procrastination?