Too Many Projects?
September 18th, 2007
I wonder if I have too many projects going on at once. It seems like I’ve gotten so many good ideas lately and I know it’s difficult for me to follow through on a regular basis as it is. Writing is one of the few things I find that motivates me but I’m still one of those kinds of people who have trouble finishing what they start and moving from one thing to another like a humming bird. The only thing that seems constant is writing its self. I often worry that if I do get my book The SC finished I’ll be given a deadline to get the rest of the series out or I’ll upset the few readers I may get by taking too long to finish the next or even- and mind you this is my biggest fear in life- that I will take so long to write The SC series that I’ll die before it’s finished. I know I’m only 18 but goodness it seems like so much in my head. I’m not a published writer yet and I’ve yet to succeed in that field of life though I’m writing other things as well but I really do think it’s a legit fear. It’s my all time goal to get that series out of my brain and on paper.
Anyways, enough about what I fear and onto why I think I have too many projects. I’ve put SC on the back burner for now because I realize I’m still learning and feeling out my style and since I want to remain consistent through that book I should put it off to the side for now and see where the pen takes me. I’ve started on this story I’ll call BD for now, it’s absolutely wonderful. I’m not even sure where it came from, not my usual stuff indeed. It’s more violent and less magickal but I’ve got an excellent plot none the less I believe. That should be a full sized book. Then I have a short story I’m working on in hopes to try my hand at magazine submissions. I’ve finished the outline but so far I haven’t started on the actual writing process though the plot seems valid enough. I’m also working on a semi non-fiction book. Not sure which way it’s going to go yet but I’d like to write something on my experiences as a child growing up in the situations that I did. It will more than likely be non fiction I think but I want to change the names and remain as unattached as possible from it. To top it all off I have a vampire story of all things floating through my mind, a mini sub-series related to SC, and half a dozen other half baked ideas that I just can’t seem to let go of.
There are just so many great things going on in my head. Well, I think they’re great and it feels so good when I’m putting them down on paper. I know that some of these things like the half bakes and SC aren’t immediate at the moment and there’s no rush on anything right now but I still wonder if this is too much. Is this what a normal aspiring writer goes through or do they just focus on one idea at a time? Or even, are they like me but they somehow make themselves focus on one at a time? Not sure I could do that, I’d be afraid of losing the good ideas.
*sigh* I know I’ll figure it out and that everyone has their own style and their own set of things that work out for them. Guess I’m still finding my way but it’s confusing and a long hard process. I have school and two jobs, a wonderful fiance’, and a thankfully limited social life to attend to all at the same time but in the end writing is my breath. I can’t live without it, making it in the writing world is survival, either I make it or I don’t. If I make it then cool beans but if I don’t I can’t give up. Writing is one of the few things I’m good at, like really, really good at. Even if my spelling stinks and my grammar could use some serious improvement I know this is what I’m meant to do. Wish me luck and clarity all. Goddess bless.
