Trila Trtat
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I have yet another person rant against myself.
I used to be a short stories kinda gal, but then, of course, the urge to write in novel format became too great- so I did so- when I had a terrifying discovery. I have Novel ADD; related to writer's block, and yet in a way oh so much more evil.
I'll get to, say, page 112 of a "book," and then I'll just stop working on it. It's not just that I'm out of ideas, I just stop. Maybe it's because I'm going to work on another novel, or maybe it's because I'm working on a song/whatever.
Still, this disease must end! I don't know why exactley I have novel ADD, but all I can say is it sucks. I don't kill the novels I write. I let them slowly die of starvation.
That is all. (Now see if this post were a novel, I wouldn't have finished it.)
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That's a problem for me a lot of the time too. I started this story in high school. It was slated to be this epic war novel and I spent a year on it (I was in school, had a job, and social life then so I didn't have the free time to work on it all the time). Then I took a couple months off because of some personal **** I was going through and never got back into it. It's really a shame too cause by the time I thought about doing some more work on it my old computer crashed and although I had it on backup I was missing like a fourth of it. Anyway, I've had a couple different stories that have suffered this fate. That was just the worst because I put so much effort into it. Prolly wasn't very good anyway but still, lol.
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when I cannot get into book, i put it down and leave it, then come back to it later and then can sometimes get into it.
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Experiencing this right now. I write up a passage, but decide that there's something not quite "right" in it. But I don't have the heart to delete it either. So it just is a monkeywrench in the machinery that is the story.
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I have a lot of the same problem. I believe I have started about 15 separate projects now and have only completed one project fully (see sig) plus a handful of scripts for two television shows that I'm developing, a couple school projects, a few short stories, and a very rough script for Voyager (which is providing the basis for one of the television series) back when they were accepting scripts from fans, and before I had any clue as to what I was doing
I think I'm getting better though. And I haven't given up on a lot of the projects that I've set aside.
quote:Experiencing this right now. I write up a passage, but decide that there's something not quite "right" in it. But I don't have the heart to delete it either. So it just is a monkeywrench in the machinery that is the story.
I had that problem too for awhile. I solved it by simply saving the material onto a 2nd file and marking it "'Novel X' Recycling". That way I have all the ideas available to me if I ever see an opportunity to reinsert the idea. Then you can move on all nice and secure that you haven't force-fed an element into the story.
Nowadays, all my projects have multiple files dedicated to it. I have the recycling bin, the bible, and I save each draft and mark on them the things I want to revive and improve.
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I have a variation of this disease. Sometimes I'm in the middle of a project and I get a great idea about something else so I go "Wooooo! I gotta write me some of dat right now!" Then I get distracted in the middle of that one. Two months later I'm back to the first thing. >:-#
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Richcelt
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Try having the REAL ADD and try and write! I have about five or six ideas for stories floating around my head all at the same time, so it's hard to decide which I want to work on at any given time. On top of that, most of the ideas I have for each one are mainly snippets of each story, all taking place at different points, and I can't organize my thoughts, much less my computer files, such that I can sit and write every one of them down and then try and piece them together later. I HAVE to write them out as they arrive in the story's chronology, which is also a monumental task of figuring out how to get from one "really great scene" to the next "really great scene" wihout becoming boring. Put that together with the fact that I have almost NO TIME to do any serious writing, and most of my stories end up on the shelf.
Fortunately I did manage to finish ONE full length novel (see sig), but it took me three years to do, it's the first part of a trilogy, I have no idea when I'll finish the other two parts, and it's a bit too "fan-fic-y" to get published on its own. I'm trying to consentrate on a more original novel (see sig), but again as I have NO LIFE, the process is taking longer to get through than I had hoped and planned. And, again to top that off, it is only one of the many others I have to hold at bay long enough to try and finish this one and see if anything will come of it.
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