Hopefully you'll find a subject you want to do, and you know, and just write! Good luck
Finishing Novels
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Absolutely not. My BFF and I myabe come up with....4 new story I ideas within 2-4weeks. I feel exactly the same. I think an idea is good, than I read some of the sotries on here, and I'm like "Ohh crap. Why would I put this on here!?"
Hopefully you'll find a subject you want to do, and you know, and just write! Good luck -
Jamie_rocks wrote:I come up with a novel idea that I think is really good. I'll work diligently on it for maybe two weeks, then I get a new idea and I start on that one. It's gone on so long I have at least twenty novels that I want to start/finish.
Oh, of course you're not the only one! Every writer (and I mean every writer) hits this kind of block once in a while. I started writing . . . oh, about in the fifth grade. My mind hadn't matured yet, so I thought all my ideas were so awesome and publish-worthy. Yeah, and then two weeks later I'd grow up and throw it all away.
I'm not really having difficulties changing stories right now. I've found one that intrigues me: it's everything I'd want in a book, and yet it still challenges me, keeps me on my toes. I have this lurking fear that one day I'll lose interest and stop writing my beloved story altogether. But you have to stay focused.
One of the things I'd recommend is picking an idea and sticking with it. Seriously. Say you like one idea about a homeless kid (just an example, mind you) and you want to finish something so badly. Then force yourself to stay with it. If you get struck by lightning half-way through ad get another idea, then write it all down (the idea) but continue your current story. See it out until it ends or someone tells you it's no good.
Yeah, it's a pain the neck, this stage of writing. But you have to stay strong and play it by ear. There aren't any rules, and I'm not even sure my strategy will work for you.
Hope this helped.
Best of luck!
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Boy do I have that problem!
I start on one, then get an idea and try that one, then get another idea!---It's terrible.
My one remedy for the too many idea problem is to focus on the story that most relates to what I'm going through at the moment.
It makes that story the easier one to write.Thereby making it more fun and closer to my heart in a way.
Also, if you make an outline before you start to write, why don't you try to look at the one, whci you have more events outlined for? That always helps me.
And one last thing. If you have a story that pretty much gives you a headache to write because you are thinking about every little thing so much then I would consider not doing that one at the moment.
Leave it alone and go back to it later.
Don't sweat it though.
Even Mark Twain had that problem LOL. He called it the books that refused to be written. -
I've done that. The way I actually got around to finishing a novel was to not allow myself to write anything longer than a really short story or a flash fiction thing until I finished my novel. I wrote down all the ideas I might want to get back to later and thought about them, but I wouldn't write a single word of another novel until I finished that first one. It's hard, but worth it.
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I totally have that problem. There was a time in middle school when I came up with a fully-developed book idea every few days, but that includes parts of my Faerie Trilogy. I don't exactly mind that
It also doesn't help that I have the attention span of a turnip and get utterly infatuated with a new idea while being depressed about another. I think I have writer's bipolar
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I have the same problem. It's not just with novels, it's with any kind of story. I have so many ideas but I can never finish writing about them. :/
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Yes definitely your not the only one. I've been working on a story for like, two years. And I've gotten to the place in the story where i thought it would be easy to just write.Unfortunately no. However I'm extremely attached to my characters. Its sortav funny 'cuse I'm mostly attached to the bad guy (girl) anyways find a song or a group of songs that make you think that if your story was a musical that your characters would sing as their this is what I'm all about song. At least that works for me! Good luck!
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Hey, I have the same problem as well.
It's really annoying for me; I've been trying to get rid of it. -
I have the same problem, I'm working on this four part series, and I have about 70 pages down in each of the books (I'm planning on having a 300 page minimum for each) but I also have 27 other novels and plot lines that I have been dying to work on. What I do to focus on my four part series is ignore them for a while. While I'm ignoring them, I write a detailed summary for each of the other 27 books I have planned, and that keeps me satisfied for a while and I start working on my four part series again.
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Keep working on the one you are when you think of a new one. Jot down that idea on a paper/ journal/ Microsoft Office Word ANYTHING. Just make sure you make it so you will remember that idea when the one you are working on is all over with.
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i, right now, have seven books started. i doubt i will ever finish them. every week i come up with a new idea. when i do i pause the one i am working on in that moment and record my new idea. it helps alot because i can always go back to read them again.
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I had that problem. How did I fix it you ask? I did not the story did.
You see I think our imagination comes up with thousands of great ideas but when it keeps doing this to where you have 20+ novels piled up on your desk... its ridiculous. What I think is that your imagination is still searching for 'that' story. The one that is just going to blow everything else out of the water and you won't be able to stop writing that story and you won't even have to think about the plot because it just appears.
Let the story find you, don't force a story that doesn't want to be written.
(I know Im insane but it works.)
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