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Mellz Bellz:
Does anyone else besides me suffer from this phenomenon? Is there medication for it?

Seriously though... I am trying to get my groove back and find my fan fic niche again and I'm really struggling. I'm getting these ideas that have potential but for whatever reason I just can't decide where to go with them. At first I just thought that maybe it was the fact that I'm not in the best point in my life to write romance because all my female characters were coming out really annoying and I'm not too big a believer in romance right now. So, I started to think about other genres. I got a bunch of new ideas, I've had the itch to rewrite or finish up old stories that I started... It's like I have all these beginnings that I'm super excited about! Then I write a bit of the first Chapter and start to have doubts and decide to work on something else. It's to the point where I'll literally bounce back and forth between word documents. I have a zillion chapter one's but that's it. How do you guys decide which idea to concentrate on when you have so many? And how do you take a small idea and trurn it into a whole story?

I'm just so indesicive and scared to post anything. I don't know what is with me lately!

mare:
I know I have suffered from fanfic ADD. I found whenever I had a ton of ideas I just sat on them and didn't do much. I wouldn't even write anything down. If the idea was still strong a few days or week later then I knew it was worth something. If I can't even remember what I wanted to write a day after I got the idea, then it wasn't worth it. That's how I figure out what to write.

I think the hardest part comes when you start the doubting yourself. You should just go with it and don't start asking yourself too many questions that make you change your mind and second guess your decisions.

Another idea that helps me is make it a small one shot. Even shorter than a short story to see if you can come up with a beginning, middle and end that makes sense. If you can do that then you're probably going in the right direction.

Good luck!

RokofAges75:
I have had a big case of WADD (Writer's ADD) this week.  I have unfinished chapters in the works on three different stories, and instead of finishing any of them last night, I was working on a short story that I haven't touched in almost three years.  WTF?

Usually I'm not like that when I have stories in progress that I'm actually pretty into, but I've been in your shoes before, Mel.  I went through that in 2008, after I had finished BMS.  I had all these ideas that I had been hoarding during the five years I spent writing that series, and I was so excited about finishing it and starting something new, but by the time I did, I had a hard time getting going on any of my other ideas.  I started some things and played around with some ideas, but never really got anywhere with them.

What worked for me was to write short stories and collaborate.  I'm not a big short story person, but I wrote a songfic that I'd been sitting on for awhile, and I wrote a couple of challenge stories for here.  00Carter gave me an outlet to be creative and write stuff that was completely different from anything I'd write on my own, and then we got the idea for Song for the Undead, and that was the story that really sucked me back into writing regularly.  Thank god for collabs, because I didn't have that novel of my own that I could really get into until last summer with Curtain Call.  And Curtain Call was not one of the ideas I had saved in a file somewhere; it came in a burst of raw inspiration and refused to leave me alone, so I had no choice but to write it.  I'm glad I did.

As much as I hate saying it, I think sometimes when you're in a slump, you just have to wait for lightning to strike with the right idea.  I've tried manufacturing ideas, forcing them out, and they never go as smoothly.  The two stories I abandoned to write CC, Secrets of the Heart and Guilty Roads, were both manufactured ideas, and although I like them, I don't have near the same level of inspiration for them.

But try some one shots or challenges, maybe try collaborating if you can, and see what happens.  Sometimes you just have to get yourself writing something, anything, to get the creative juices going again.

cabybakes:
With y'all here...which is why I always only allow myself to work on one thing at a time.  I have lots of ideas and am short on time, so I will forget what I had in my head.

Purpura Lipstick:
*looks at the five stories open in front of her on the screen.* No, no I don't know what that's like at all.  ;)

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